5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COLED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of colead

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 COLED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COLED 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #305 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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___D C in the 1st position and D in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position CO_ED C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT TARSE ARSON STAIR STALE SHART
Words starting with C Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.13 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COLED 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#305 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COLED ranks #305 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,025
4 guesses
1,100
5 guesses
149
6 guesses
8
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:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
37%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
273
145
145
129
108
80
80
59
57
54
51
50
48
38
35
30
29
26
24
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18
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COLED:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SAINT 6.31 bits
11.6% →
TARSE 5.62 bits
6.1% →
SAINT 5.24 bits
6.1% →
ARSON 5.29 bits
5.5% →
STAIR 4.69 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.81 bits
3.4% →
SHART 4.47 bits
3.4% →
STAIR 4.83 bits
2.5% →
STORE 4.39 bits
2.4% →
GEARE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1L1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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