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

COMAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A flat, pan-like clay or metal griddle used to cook tortillas or other foods.

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 COMAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COMAL 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #727 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COMAL 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COMAL 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#727 Rank among openers
Opening with COMAL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #727 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,008
4 guesses
1,103
5 guesses
165
6 guesses
9
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:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

COMAL can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

453 answers
300 answers
163 answers
146 answers
124 answers
115 answers
76 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
47 answers
47 answers
44 answers
40 answers
40 answers
33 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3A1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRINE TARSE STILE SURGE STALE BARON

Strategy after playing COMAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMAL:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
TRINE 6.20 bits
12.6% →
TARSE 5.66 bits
6.9% →
TRINE 5.46 bits
6.1% →
STILE 5.27 bits
5.2% →
SURGE 4.75 bits
4.8% →
STALE 4.80 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 5.10 bits
2.2% →
BARON 4.54 bits
2.1% →
SETER 4.46 bits
2.1% →
TARSE 4.64 bits

Research on COMAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with COMAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,092 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 #500 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 3.66, 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 KOHMUHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

Synonyms HAIRY haired

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COMAL sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).