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

CAMIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkæmiz//ˈkæmɪs/

Noun

plural of cami

Noun

A light, loose dress or robe.

Alternative forms: camese, camiso, camus

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 CAMIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CAMIS 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,899 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 CAMIS 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CAMIS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,899 Rank among openers
Opening with CAMIS 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 3.64 average. It ranks #2,899 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

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

415 answers
246 answers
228 answers
200 answers
134 answers
107 answers
85 answers
64 answers
62 answers
57 answers
45 answers
45 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAMIS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6%
TONER 5.91 bits
10.4%
ALERT 5.58 bits
9.7%
TRINE 5.43 bits
8.5%
ROUET 5.49 bits
5.7%
TONER 4.69 bits
4.5%
THALE 4.80 bits
3.6%
TRINE 4.57 bits
2.7%
DRONE 5.04 bits
2.6%
RONTE 4.66 bits
2.4%
ROUTE 5.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1M3I1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

The science of CAMIS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about CAMIS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with CAMIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses — rank #3,721 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best — rank #1,316 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.68 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it KAMIHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

How people know it

Frequency
CAMIS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English — 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).