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

COATI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kəʊˈɑːti//koʊˈɑti/

Noun

Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua, that live in the range from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Alternative forms: coaiti

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 COATI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COATI 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 114 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,627 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.
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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 _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COATI 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.

5.14 Entropy (bits)
114 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COATI 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,627 Rank among openers
Opening with COATI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,627 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
35%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

COATI can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

260 answers
235 answers
220 answers
135 answers
130 answers
123 answers
91 answers
89 answers
74 answers
60 answers
56 answers
56 answers
45 answers
43 answers
37 answers
37 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1A1T1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLEER SIDLE PALER DROLE SLYER SENOR

Strategy after playing COATI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COATI:

11% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
10% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE
9% chance
Suggested:
PALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
SLEER 5.77 bits
9.9% →
SIDLE 5.40 bits
9.3% →
PALER 5.32 bits
5.7% →
DROLE 4.62 bits
5.5% →
SLYER 4.60 bits
5.2% →
SENOR 4.90 bits
3.8% →
SLEER 5.27 bits
3.7% →
SILER 4.69 bits
3.1% →
ALERT 4.53 bits
2.5% →
ARSON 4.48 bits

Research on COATI

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

Optimal play

Opening with COATI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,740 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,752 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KOHTEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COATI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).