5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

CARVE

Yes, CARVE was the Wordle answer on October 10, 2024 (Wordle #1209).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɑɹv//kɑːv/

Verb

To cut meat in order to serve it.

“You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.”

Verb

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

“to carve a name into a tree”

Noun

The act of carving

“Give that turkey a careful carve.”

Noun

A carucate.

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: October 10, 2024 (#1209).

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

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How CARVE performs as a guess

CARVE 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,098 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__V_ C in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY INLET SLANT SOLED DROIT SONLY
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.13 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CARVE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#5,098 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CARVE ranks #5,098 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
18
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S U R G E
C A R V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CARVE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

375
182
157
135
133
126
106
91
74
73
59
48
45
42
38
29
27
26
25
25
23
22
21
21
21
19
18
18
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CARVE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
INLET
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
7.7% →
INLET 5.12 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.41 bits
5.7% →
SOLED 3.90 bits
5.6% →
DROIT 5.00 bits
5.3% →
SOILY 4.65 bits
4.5% →
SONLY 4.60 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.44 bits
3.1% →
TOUCH 4.57 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1R1V4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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