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

COMBI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmbi//ˈkɑmbi/

Noun

An aircraft adapted to carry either cargo or passengers, or both at once.

Noun

Clipping of combination.

“My old combi boiler broke down.”

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 COMBI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COMBI 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 287 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,417 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___I C in the 1st position and I in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COMBI 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.

4.07 Entropy (bits)
287 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COMBI 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#7,417 Rank among openers
Opening with COMBI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,417 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
12
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:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
22%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

COMBI can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

658 answers
370 answers
205 answers
144 answers
102 answers
99 answers
83 answers
83 answers
52 answers
44 answers
40 answers
39 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3B3I1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TARSE TRINE SNORT TALER SERAL LEANT

Strategy after playing COMBI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMBI:

28% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
16% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
TARSE 6.33 bits
15.6% →
TRINE 5.54 bits
8.6% →
SNORT 5.25 bits
6.1% →
TALER 4.69 bits
4.3% →
SERAL 5.42 bits
4.2% →
LEANT 5.42 bits
3.5% →
TARSE 5.32 bits
3.5% →
STARE 5.13 bits
2.2% →
TRICE 4.16 bits
1.9% →
RIONE 4.11 bits

Research on COMBI

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

Optimal play

Opening with COMBI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,702 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,161 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 KOHMBEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COMBI 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.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).