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

COHOG

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of quahog.

Noun

A co-ed.

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

Etymology

Blend of co-ed + quahog; the quahog is indigenous to the area.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use COHOG in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 80.7% 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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How COHOG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COHOG 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 59.0% of games, misses completely in 41.0%, and leaves about 460 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,833 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 COHOG 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.

3.59 Entropy (bits)
460 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COHOG 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,833 Rank among openers
Opening with COHOG left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,833 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
693
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
26%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

COHOG can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

978 answers
166 answers
166 answers
151 answers
140 answers
134 answers
93 answers
66 answers
52 answers
39 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
13 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1H4O1G2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing COHOG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COHOG:

41% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.0% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
7.0% →
RAINE 5.53 bits
7.0% →
TARSE 5.79 bits
6.3% →
IRATE 5.20 bits
5.9% →
SLYER 4.72 bits
5.6% →
RAISE 5.35 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 4.96 bits
2.8% →
MARLE 4.50 bits
2.2% →
LIANE 4.00 bits
1.6% →
MAIRE 4.41 bits

Research on COHOG

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

Optimal play

Opening with COHOG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,732 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,130 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).