5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COALS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəʊlz//kɔʊlz//koʊlz/

Noun

plural of coal

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of coal

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 COALS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COALS 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 114 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #195 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__L_ C in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRIED TRINE STIRE RUOTE FILER RENAL
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.23 Entropy (bits)
114 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COALS 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#195 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COALS ranks #195 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
1,058
4 guesses
1,052
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
14
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:
ALOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
37%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

334
192
172
128
114
105
87
82
69
68
63
56
56
51
44
40
36
34
30
29
28
26
22
22
18
18
18
18
18
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COALS:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
TRIED 6.06 bits
8.1% →
TRINE 5.33 bits
7.3% →
STIRE 5.54 bits
5.4% →
TRINE 5.43 bits
4.8% →
RUOTE 4.45 bits
4.5% →
FILER 4.93 bits
3.7% →
RENAL 4.58 bits
3.5% →
TRIDE 4.96 bits
2.9% →
TRICE 5.00 bits
2.9% →
PARTE 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1A1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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