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COCOA

Yes, COCOA was the Wordle answer on May 9, 2023 (Wordle #689).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ//ˈkoʊ.koʊ//koˈkoʊ.ɐ/

Noun

The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

Noun

An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

Adjective

Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 9, 2023 (#689).

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

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How COCOA performs as a guess

COCOA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 398 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,103 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE TRINE STURE STALE LATER
Words starting with C Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.52 Entropy (bits)
398 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COCOA 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,103 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COCOA ranks #14,103 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
622
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
412
6 guesses
37
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L U C I D
C O C O A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COCOA in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

724
576
160
158
87
65
63
55
46
46
44
34
31
29
28
22
21
21
16
15
13
10
7
7
7
5
5
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COCOA:

31% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
24% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
SLIER 6.07 bits
24.4% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
6.8% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
6.7% →
STURE 4.69 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 4.93 bits
2.8% →
STALE 4.44 bits
2.7% →
LATER 4.44 bits
2.3% →
TRINE 4.56 bits
2.0% →
MARLE 4.21 bits
2.0% →
BLORE 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1C3O1A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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