Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

COAPT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To fit together; often, to fit together and fasten, sometimes with mutual adaptation.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

First attested in 1570; Late Latin coaptō, from con- + aptō (“to fasten”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use COAPT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How COAPT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COAPT 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #165 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe COAPT 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COAPT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#165 Rank among openers
Opening with COAPT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #165 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,059
4 guesses
1,070
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
39%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

COAPT can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

399 answers
234 answers
133 answers
128 answers
127 answers
121 answers
87 answers
85 answers
77 answers
66 answers
64 answers
50 answers
44 answers
40 answers
38 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1A1P3T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing COAPT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COAPT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
10% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
9.8% →
MARLE 5.28 bits
5.6% →
DROLE 4.68 bits
5.4% →
SLIDE 4.90 bits
5.3% →
DRONE 5.20 bits
5.1% →
SHIRE 5.40 bits
3.6% →
SILER 5.55 bits
3.6% →
SIREN 5.29 bits
3.2% →
TARTE 4.76 bits
2.8% →
SLICE 4.85 bits

Research on COAPT

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

Optimal play

Opening with COAPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #815 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #210 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).