5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

COMBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊmi//ˈkoʊmi/

Adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a comb.

Adjective

Of a wheel: having a defect consisting of a network of fine cracks covering a small area of the tread.

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 COMBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COMBY 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 65.8% of games, misses completely in 34.2%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,052 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE SATER SLART TIARE RAILE RANSE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COMBY 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,052 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COMBY ranks #9,052 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
17
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
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
34%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

807
225
194
131
118
110
98
94
44
34
32
31
28
26
25
24
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMBY:

34% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SATER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.2% →
RAISE 6.19 bits
9.5% →
SATER 5.25 bits
8.2% →
SLART 4.91 bits
5.6% →
TIARE 5.39 bits
5.0% →
RAILE 5.45 bits
4.7% →
RANSE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
RAILE 5.19 bits
4.0% →
RAISE 5.42 bits
1.9% →
DROLE 3.85 bits
1.4% →
BARON 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3B3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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