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

COLAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cola

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 COLAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COLAS 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #654 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

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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__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in COLAS.

First-turn measures

All four describe COLAS 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COLAS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#654 Rank among openers
Opening with COLAS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #654 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,028
4 guesses
1,064
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

COLAS can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
241 answers
172 answers
129 answers
126 answers
114 answers
110 answers
106 answers
69 answers
58 answers
56 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
37 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1L1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRINE STIRE PLIER RUOTE PRATE PAIRE

Strategy after playing COLAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COLAS:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
TRINE 6.08 bits
10.2% →
TRINE 5.47 bits
7.2% →
STIRE 5.54 bits
5.4% →
TRINE 5.43 bits
5.3% →
PLIER 4.98 bits
4.8% →
RUOTE 4.45 bits
4.6% →
PRATE 5.00 bits
4.5% →
PAIRE 4.51 bits
2.9% →
TRICE 5.01 bits
2.4% →
BARON 4.54 bits

Research on COLAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with COLAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,341 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #519 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 KOHLUHS.

Rhymes with POLIS BOLUS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COLAS is a kind of drink.

Synonyms dope

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COLAS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.5 of 5).

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).