CODED
CODED is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.dəd//ˈkəʊ.dɪd/
- Adjective
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Encoded; written in code or cipher.
- Adjective
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Portrayed in a way that suggests or resembles having a specific trait or inspiration, without being officially explicitly stated as having that trait.
“The character comes across as being female-coded.”
- Verb
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simple past and past participle of code
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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See what the public sample says →How CODED performs as a guess
Wordle accepts CODED 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,438 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CODED 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CODED 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
CODED can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CODED; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CODED
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CODED.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CODED:
Research on CODED
Game-tree analysis and word research for CODED, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CODED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,917 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CODED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 KOHDIHD.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CODED is a kind of case or seafood.
Synonyms ride collect RALLY fool bait pod
Opposites UNDUE
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CODED sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
In a sentence
We got a coded message.
That seems to be a coded message.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).