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

CAMPO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A police officer assigned to a university campus.

Noun

A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.

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

Etymology

From Spanish campo and/or Portuguese campo. Doublet of camp and campus.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

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

In a sentence

When will you come back from Campo Grande?
© tatoeba.org contributor Nylez (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Rio is a very large city and Campo Grande is the biggest neighbor.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ricardo14 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use CAMPO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% 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 CAMPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CAMPO 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 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,575 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CAMPO 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CAMPO 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#3,575 Rank among openers
Opening with CAMPO left 1 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,575 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
25%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

CAMPO can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

539 answers
302 answers
291 answers
152 answers
95 answers
82 answers
71 answers
51 answers
47 answers
47 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1M3P3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing CAMPO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAMPO:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
12% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6% →
SLIER 6.04 bits
12.7% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
12.2% →
TRONE 5.36 bits
6.4% →
STILE 4.92 bits
4.0% →
SILER 5.56 bits
3.4% →
TUILE 5.01 bits
3.0% →
BLOAT 4.51 bits
2.1% →
SLIER 4.64 bits
2.0% →
SENOR 4.31 bits
2.0% →
STIRE 5.03 bits

Research on CAMPO

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

Optimal play

Opening with CAMPO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,970 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,232 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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
CAMPO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).