5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CAVIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A chicken coop.

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 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 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

STORY SETER SLART STING ROUSE SONLY
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#6,636 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CAVIE 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
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

330
246
204
187
116
115
111
75
74
70
50
42
40
36
33
32
32
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28
28
28
21
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15

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 5.56 bits
10.4% →
SETER 5.49 bits
8.7% →
SLART 5.42 bits
7.9% →
STING 4.85 bits
4.9% →
ROUSE 4.59 bits
4.9% →
SONLY 4.47 bits
4.7% →
ALERT 4.66 bits
3.2% →
DINER 4.68 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.45 bits
3.0% →
STIRE 3.59 bits

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.