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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kɑːst//kast//kæst/
- Noun
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Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
- Noun
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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
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How CASTE performs as a guess
CASTE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.3% of games, misses completely in 10.7%, and leaves about 88 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #446 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CASTE 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CASTE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CASTE can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CASTE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CASTE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CASTE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CASTE:
Research on CASTE
Game-tree analysis and word research for CASTE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CASTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #179 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CASTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CASTE is a kind of position or class.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CASTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
He was born into a high caste.
They belong to the same caste.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).