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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

CAMEO

Yes, CAMEO was the Wordle answer on July 11, 2024 (Wordle #1118).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.iː.əʊ//ˈkæm.i.oʊ/

Noun

A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.

Noun

A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.

“Famous comic book writer Stan Lee had a cameo in the Spider-Man movie. He was on screen for perhaps ten seconds, but aficionados distinctly remember him.”

Verb

To appear in a cameo role.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 11, 2024 (#1118).

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

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How CAMEO performs as a guess

CAMEO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.4% of games, misses completely in 10.6%, and leaves about 121 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SPILT SEINE SNORT SLANT SLART SILER
Words starting with C Words ending with O

First-turn measures

5.07 Entropy (bits)
121 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CAMEO 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,820 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CAMEO ranks #3,820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
34%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A M E O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CAMEO in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

251
234
207
171
166
151
110
88
66
48
47
42
40
36
34
34
29
28
27
27
25
23
23
22
22
20
16
16
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAMEO:

11% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
10% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.6% →
SPILT 5.73 bits
9.9% →
SEINE 5.44 bits
8.8% →
SNORT 5.16 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.41 bits
7.0% →
SLART 5.23 bits
6.4% →
SILER 4.52 bits
4.7% →
SALTY 4.26 bits
3.7% →
SNORE 4.36 bits
2.8% →
TONAL 4.43 bits
2.0% →
LUNCH 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1M3E1O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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