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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

COACH

Yes, COACH was the Wordle answer on September 28, 2023 (Wordle #831).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəʊtʃ/[kʰəʊ̯tʃ]/koʊt͡ʃ/

Noun

A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

Noun

A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

Verb

To train.

Verb

To instruct; to train.

“She has coached many opera stars.”

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 28, 2023 (#831).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 28, 2023 (#831).

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

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How COACH performs as a guess

COACH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.9% of games, misses completely in 26.1%, and leaves about 272 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,846 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___H C in the 1st position and H in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in COACH.

First-turn measures

All four describe COACH used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
272 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COACH 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,846 Rank among openers
Opening with COACH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,846 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
790
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L O A M Y
C O A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COACH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COACH can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

619 answers
365 answers
202 answers
179 answers
165 answers
84 answers
81 answers
40 answers
38 answers
33 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1A1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SLIER TALER TRINE STIRE SLYER TALON

Strategy after playing COACH

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to COACH.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COACH:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.1% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
15.4% →
TALER 5.54 bits
8.5% →
TRINE 5.34 bits
7.5% →
STIRE 5.11 bits
7.0% →
SLYER 4.59 bits
3.5% →
TALON 4.47 bits
3.4% →
STIRE 5.41 bits
1.7% →
SLIPE 4.45 bits
1.6% →
TRIPE 4.54 bits
1.4% →
INCUR 4.42 bits

Research on COACH

Game-tree analysis and word research for COACH, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with COACH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,706 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with COACH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KOHCH.

Rhymes with ROACH ROCHE POACH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COACH is a kind of trainer or teacher.

Synonyms manager TRAIN bus carriage TUTOR handler

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COACH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 91 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 83 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

In a sentence

I had a good coach.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't need a coach.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).