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

COBBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒbi/

Adjective

Stocky.

Adjective

Compact with short bushy leaves.

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 COBBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COBBY 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 60.8% of games, misses completely in 39.2%, and leaves about 448 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,839 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COBBY 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.

3.43 Entropy (bits)
448 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COBBY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,839 Rank among openers
Opening with COBBY left 1 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 3.89 average. It ranks #13,839 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
634
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
365
6 guesses
37
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
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
34%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

COBBY can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

931 answers
258 answers
231 answers
151 answers
144 answers
115 answers
99 answers
53 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1B3B3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

RAISE TRONE TIARE RANSE RAILE SLATE

Strategy after playing COBBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COBBY:

39% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.2% →
RAISE 6.18 bits
10.9% →
TRONE 5.24 bits
9.7% →
RAISE 4.73 bits
6.4% →
TIARE 5.37 bits
6.1% →
RANSE 4.69 bits
4.8% →
RAILE 5.24 bits
4.2% →
SLATE 5.34 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.89 bits
1.5% →
STORE 4.29 bits
1.5% →
URASE 4.00 bits

Research on COBBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with COBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,543 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,882 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 KAHBEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COBBY 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).