5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CERNE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A minor river in Dorset, England, which joins the River Frome at Dorchester.

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 CERNE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CERNE 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT TRAIL SOLAR SATIN STEAL SHALT
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CERNE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#3,329 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CERNE ranks #3,329 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,104
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
44%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

461
200
163
127
112
98
96
95
70
66
62
53
53
36
32
30
26
25
25
21
19
19
18
17
17
17
17
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CERNE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
SAULT 5.98 bits
8.5% →
TRAIL 5.20 bits
6.9% →
SAULT 5.50 bits
5.4% →
SOLAR 4.01 bits
4.7% →
SATIN 5.11 bits
4.2% →
STEAL 5.10 bits
4.1% →
SHALT 4.83 bits
4.0% →
SAULT 4.87 bits
3.0% →
SALTY 4.68 bits
2.8% →
ORATE 3.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1R1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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