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

CAMPI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of campus

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

Etymology

From Latin campī (nominative plural of campus).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAMPEE.

Rhymes with CAMPY

Use CAMPI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CAMPI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CAMPI 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,218 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 CAMPI 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.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CAMPI 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,218 Rank among openers
Opening with CAMPI left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,218 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
24%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

CAMPI can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

531 answers
318 answers
308 answers
148 answers
93 answers
74 answers
69 answers
65 answers
64 answers
52 answers
46 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1M3P3I1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing CAMPI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAMPI:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
13% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
SOREL 6.07 bits
13.3% →
TRINE 5.49 bits
12.9% →
ALERT 5.61 bits
6.2% →
SLYER 4.77 bits
3.9% →
SOREL 5.37 bits
3.1% →
RONTE 4.91 bits
2.9% →
DROLE 5.01 bits
2.7% →
TRIAL 4.54 bits
2.7% →
ROUTE 5.14 bits
2.2% →
SILER 4.68 bits

Research on CAMPI

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

Optimal play

Opening with CAMPI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,426 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 #1,616 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 3.71, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CAMPI 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).