5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CENTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

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 CENTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CENTO 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,001 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SURLY RAILE DROOL SLART LEARE ROOSE
Words starting with C Words ending with O

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CENTO 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,001 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CENTO ranks #2,001 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
960
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
18
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:
ENOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
30%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

296
287
158
116
100
99
97
83
71
71
63
57
51
48
42
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19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CENTO:

13% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
DROOL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
SURLY 5.60 bits
12.2% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
6.7% →
DROOL 5.15 bits
4.9% →
SLART 5.38 bits
4.2% →
LEARE 4.73 bits
4.2% →
ROOSE 4.32 bits
4.1% →
LAREE 4.85 bits
3.5% →
SLANG 4.89 bits
3.0% →
SOLAR 4.38 bits
3.0% →
ARIEL 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1N1T1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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