Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

CALMY

CALMY is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːmi/

Adjective

tranquil; calm

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How CALMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CALMY as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,191 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe CALMY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CALMY performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,191 Rank among openers
Opening with CALMY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,191 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
36%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

CALMY can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

582 answers
243 answers
187 answers
144 answers
132 answers
107 answers
93 answers
77 answers
64 answers
47 answers
40 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for CALMY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

C3A1L1M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing CALMY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CALMY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CALMY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

24.5%
TRINE 6.34 bits
10.2%
STARE 5.62 bits
7.9%
SLIER 5.12 bits
6.1%
STONE 4.60 bits
5.6%
SLATE 4.68 bits
4.5%
TOISE 5.26 bits
3.9%
TORSE 4.85 bits
3.2%
ROUET 5.31 bits
2.7%
HOISE 4.88 bits
2.0%
SHART 3.38 bits

Research on CALMY

Game-tree analysis and word research for CALMY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CALMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,983 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,697 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAMEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CALMY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).