5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

CATES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

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 CATES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CATES 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 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 91 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,378 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CA_ES C in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROUND NOIRE ADORN RIONE BLARE TROUT
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.44 Entropy (bits)
91 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CATES 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,378 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CATES ranks #1,378 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
16
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
35%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

115 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

254
183
139
133
111
107
102
80
75
73
59
56
50
46
45
35
34
34
34
33
29
29
28
28
27
27
22
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CATES:

11% chance
Suggested:
ROUND
8% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
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
7.8% →
NOIRE 5.15 bits
5.9% →
ADORN 5.07 bits
5.6% →
RIONE 4.16 bits
4.7% →
BLARE 4.78 bits
4.5% →
TROUT 4.98 bits
4.3% →
SHINY 4.71 bits
3.4% →
RANDY 4.17 bits
3.2% →
SNORE 4.52 bits
3.1% →
SHIRT 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1T1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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