5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COBIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A perciform marine fish of species Rachycentron canadum.

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 COBIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COBIA 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,115 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SLEER TRINE SENOR TRODE LEAST
Words starting with C Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.63 Entropy (bits)
183 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COBIA 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,115 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COBIA ranks #6,115 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
21
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
28%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

416
317
272
166
150
62
57
57
54
51
48
46
46
39
37
36
36
30
25
23
23
23
21
21
20
18
14
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COBIA:

18% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
TARSE 5.63 bits
13.4% →
SLEER 5.84 bits
11.5% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
7.0% →
SENOR 5.04 bits
6.4% →
TRODE 4.46 bits
2.6% →
LEAST 4.62 bits
2.4% →
TALON 4.41 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.35 bits
2.3% →
TRINE 4.55 bits
2.2% →
LURCH 4.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1B3I1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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