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COMET

Yes, COMET has been the Wordle answer on October 19, 2021 (Wordle #122) and March 30, 2026 (Wordle #1745).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪt//ˈkɑmət/

Noun

A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.

Noun

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used 2 times

Past Wordle answer: October 19, 2021 (#122); March 30, 2026 (#1745).

See the full page for each puzzle: October 19, 2021 (#122); March 30, 2026 (#1745).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How COMET performs as a guess

COMET is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,244 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COMET 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)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COMET 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,244 Rank among openers
Opening with COMET solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,244 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
969
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
181
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:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U L C H
C O M E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COMET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COMET can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
297 answers
156 answers
132 answers
114 answers
95 answers
81 answers
80 answers
61 answers
57 answers
56 answers
54 answers
49 answers
45 answers
43 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3E1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SNAIL SEARE RAINY ARSON SNARY TASTE

Strategy after playing COMET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMET:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
13% chance
Suggested:
SEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
SNAIL 5.94 bits
12.5% →
SEARE 5.42 bits
6.6% →
RAINY 4.33 bits
5.6% →
ARSON 5.29 bits
4.8% →
SNARY 5.06 bits
4.0% →
TASTE 4.86 bits
3.4% →
ARISE 4.67 bits
3.4% →
SADLY 4.34 bits
2.6% →
SHALY 4.69 bits
2.4% →
RAINY 4.49 bits

Research on COMET

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

Optimal play

Opening with COMET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #718 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 #483 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 KAHMUHT.

Rhymes with VOMIT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COMET is a kind of whole.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COMET sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 85 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

That's how he discovered the comet.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tonight a comet will be visible.
© tatoeba.org contributor CarpeLanam (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).