5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CARDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɑɹdz//kɑːdz/

Noun

plural of card

Noun

Card games.

“He's a fan of cards.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of card

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 CARDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CARDS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #829 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALONE TONEY LEANT THALE TUILE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CARDS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#829 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CARDS ranks #829 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
1,014
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
216
213
167
103
101
97
89
79
63
55
54
53
44
41
36
32
30
30
29
27
25
24
20
20
20
19
19
18
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CARDS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
TOILE 6.16 bits
9.2% →
TOILE 5.44 bits
9.0% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
7.1% →
ALONE 5.57 bits
4.4% →
TONEY 4.66 bits
4.3% →
TOILE 5.18 bits
4.1% →
LEANT 4.71 bits
3.8% →
THALE 4.88 bits
3.4% →
TUILE 4.80 bits
2.7% →
SPITE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1R1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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