Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

CAVIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A chicken coop.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Related to Käfig (“cage”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use CAVIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CAVIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CAVIE 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,636 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CAVIE 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CAVIE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#6,636 Rank among openers
Opening with CAVIE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,636 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
41%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

CAVIE can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

334 answers
250 answers
205 answers
190 answers
117 answers
115 answers
112 answers
76 answers
74 answers
71 answers
51 answers
44 answers
41 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1V4I1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing CAVIE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CAVIE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CAVIE:

14% chance
Suggested:
STORY
10% chance
Suggested:
SETER
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
STORY 5.57 bits
10.5% →
SETER 5.51 bits
8.6% →
SLART 5.41 bits
8.0% →
STING 4.84 bits
4.9% →
ROUSE 4.58 bits
4.8% →
SONLY 4.47 bits
4.7% →
ALERT 4.68 bits
3.2% →
DINER 4.69 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.45 bits
3.0% →
STIRE 3.58 bits

Research on CAVIE

Game-tree analysis and word research for CAVIE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CAVIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,380 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 CAVIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).