5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COHEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

Alternative forms: kohen, kohein

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 COHEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COHEN 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,172 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART STAIR GAUNT SADLY SEINE
Words starting with C Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COHEN 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,172 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COHEN ranks #2,172 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
34%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

360
344
153
139
135
95
92
72
57
57
56
42
42
33
32
31
28
26
26
26
24
22
21
21
21
20
19
17
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COHEN:

15% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
TRAIL 6.03 bits
14.6% →
SLART 5.81 bits
6.5% →
STAIR 4.52 bits
5.9% →
SLART 5.13 bits
5.7% →
GAUNT 5.14 bits
4.0% →
SADLY 4.54 bits
3.9% →
SLART 5.25 bits
3.1% →
SEINE 4.69 bits
2.4% →
PRATE 4.35 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1H4E1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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