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

COCCO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A surname.

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

Use COCCO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 64.9% 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

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 COCCO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COCCO 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 42.9% of games, misses completely in 57.1%, and leaves about 834 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,834 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.09 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 COCCO 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.

2.52 Entropy (bits)
834 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
64.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COCCO 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.

4.09 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#14,834 Rank among openers
Opening with COCCO left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 4.09 average. It ranks #14,834 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
16
3 guesses
459
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
566
6 guesses
68

Composition

2/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
43%
Green tile
28%
All gray
57%

Feedback distribution

COCCO can come back 38 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1357 answers
256 answers
194 answers
120 answers
113 answers
41 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
20 answers
18 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1C3C3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing COCCO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COCCO:

57% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
RATEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

57.1%
RAILE 6.14 bits
10.8%
TRONE 5.28 bits
8.2%
RATEL 4.64 bits
5.1%
RAILE 5.24 bits
4.8%
THALE 4.88 bits
1.7%
SLANE 4.45 bits
1.6%
TRINE 4.39 bits
1.4%
LAIRY 4.26 bits
1.3%
SLOOP 3.39 bits
1.3%
SMOTE 3.52 bits

Research on COCCO

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

Optimal play

Opening with COCCO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.07 guesses and ranks #14,828 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.28 guesses at best and is rank #7,443 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.09; proven optimal play reaches 4.07. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 KOHKOH.

Rhymes with COCOA

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COCCO 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).