5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COIFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of coif

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of coif

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 COIFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COIFS 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,462 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__F_ C in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER STARE TILDE BRANE DROLE GRATE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COIFS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,462 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COIFS ranks #5,462 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
15
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

527
263
181
172
153
107
86
77
67
59
49
49
39
38
35
33
30
29
24
23
18
17
17
16
16
15
14
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COIFS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
TALER 6.10 bits
11.2% →
STARE 5.65 bits
7.7% →
TILDE 5.33 bits
7.3% →
BRANE 5.38 bits
6.5% →
DROLE 4.50 bits
4.5% →
GRATE 5.03 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 5.25 bits
3.3% →
PARLE 5.19 bits
2.8% →
PEART 4.16 bits
2.5% →
LEANT 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1I1F4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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