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CIVIC

Yes, CIVIC was the Wordle answer on September 23, 2021 (Wordle #96).

As an opener, it rules out about 68.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvɪk/

Adjective

Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.

“Thousands of people came to the Civic Center to show off their civic pride.”

Adjective

Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

“civic duty”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 23, 2021 (#96).

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

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How CIVIC performs as a guess

CIVIC is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 46.1% of games, misses completely in 53.9%, and leaves about 745 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,745 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.03 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___C C in the 1st position and C in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__C I in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE SNARE RONTE HAOLE TALER SOARE
Words starting with C Words ending with C

First-turn measures

2.69 Entropy (bits)
745 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
68.4% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CIVIC 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.

4.03 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.76 Volatility
#14,745 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CIVIC ranks #14,745 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
512
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
539
6 guesses
49
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
46%
Green tile
24%
All gray
54%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H U M P
C I V I C

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CIVIC in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

46 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1270
243
171
144
133
101
60
29
21
21
20
17
16
13
11
9
9
8
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5
5
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CIVIC:

54% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SNARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

53.9% →
ROATE 6.07 bits
10.3% →
SNARE 5.26 bits
7.3% →
ROATE 5.28 bits
6.1% →
RONTE 4.64 bits
5.6% →
HAOLE 5.28 bits
4.3% →
TALER 5.06 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.89 bits
1.2% →
SOLAR 4.35 bits
0.9% →
STURE 3.79 bits
0.9% →
PINCH 3.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3I1V4I1C3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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