5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

CASTE

CASTE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɑːst//kast//kæst/

Noun

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.

Noun

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

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

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 CASTE performs as a guess

CASTE 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 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 87 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #446 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROUND OLDER ADORN GOIER SLUNK GROUT
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.57 Entropy (bits)
87 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CASTE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#446 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CASTE ranks #446 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
93
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
14
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
C A S T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CASTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

126 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

254
205
139
111
95
85
80
71
66
60
56
56
55
50
49
46
45
40
33
30
30
27
27
24
23
23
22
21
21
20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CASTE:

11% chance
Suggested:
ROUND
9% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
6% chance
Suggested:
ADORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
ROUND 5.56 bits
8.7% →
OLDER 4.99 bits
5.9% →
ADORN 5.07 bits
4.7% →
GOIER 4.49 bits
4.0% →
SLUNK 4.79 bits
3.6% →
GROUT 4.92 bits
3.4% →
RANDY 4.17 bits
3.0% →
DETER 4.73 bits
2.8% →
RENAL 4.84 bits
2.5% →
SNORT 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1S1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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