5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CESTI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cestus

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 CESTI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CESTI 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,183 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___I C in the 1st position and I in the 5th position C__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__I E in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

MORAL LAREE ROANY SNARL DINER LEARE
Words starting with C Words ending with I

First-turn measures

5.07 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CESTI 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
99.8% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,183 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CESTI ranks #2,183 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
161
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:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
27%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

318
268
150
118
104
102
93
93
75
71
67
65
46
44
43
36
35
31
30
30
29
28
28
28
23
21
21
20
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CESTI:

13% chance
Suggested:
MORAL
11% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
MORAL 5.73 bits
11.4% →
LAREE 5.19 bits
6.4% →
ROANY 5.00 bits
5.0% →
SNARL 4.99 bits
4.4% →
DINER 4.69 bits
4.3% →
LEARE 4.77 bits
3.9% →
TALON 5.09 bits
3.9% →
PHARE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
TALER 4.76 bits
3.0% →
GIANT 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1S1T1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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