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CATER

Yes, CATER was the Wordle answer on March 16, 2022 (Wordle #270).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪtə//ˈkeɪɾɚ//ˈkeʈə(ɾ)/

Verb

To provide, particularly

Verb

To provide

“I catered for her bat mitzvah.”

Noun

A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.

Noun

Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.

Alternative forms: catour, cator, kater, chator

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: March 16, 2022 (#270).

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

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How CATER performs as a guess

CATER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 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 83 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #66 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position CA_ER C in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SEINE HOIST SLAIN GOURD SLADE
Words starting with C Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.64 Entropy (bits)
83 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.5% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CATER 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#66 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CATER ranks #66 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
91
3 guesses
1,049
4 guesses
1,052
5 guesses
147
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
36%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A L E A
B E E C H
C A T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CATER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

139 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

254
170
118
111
102
91
88
82
72
66
63
62
61
54
52
48
42
36
32
31
26
25
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25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CATER:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
5% chance
Suggested:
HOIST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
SOILY 5.66 bits
7.2% →
SEINE 5.41 bits
5.0% →
HOIST 5.18 bits
4.7% →
SLAIN 5.17 bits
4.3% →
GOURD 4.83 bits
3.9% →
SLADE 4.70 bits
3.7% →
POISE 4.55 bits
3.5% →
SOILY 3.63 bits
3.1% →
SONLY 4.67 bits
2.8% →
BRAND 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1T1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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