COMIC
COMIC is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪk//ˈkɑmɪk/
- Adjective
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Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
“comic genius”
- Adjective
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Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
- Noun
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A comedian.
“She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.”
- Noun
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A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAHMIHK.
Related meanings
Synonyms FUNNY comedian amusing comical laughable humorous
In a sentence
Do you know this comic?
I read a comic book.
Use COMIC in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →COMIC in Connections
4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #778
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COMIC appeared in ITEM IN A COLLECTION (blue group).
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· Puzzle #699
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COMIC appeared in ___ STRIP (purple group).
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· Puzzle #449
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COMIC appeared in CLASSIC COLLECTION ITEMS (blue group).
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· Puzzle #119
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COMIC appeared in ___ OPERA (purple group).
How COMIC performs as a guess
COMIC is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.8% of games, misses completely in 32.2%, and leaves about 349 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.
First-turn measures
All four describe COMIC 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How COMIC 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches COMIC in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
COMIC can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for COMIC; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing COMIC
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to COMIC.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing COMIC:
Research on COMIC
Game-tree analysis and word research for COMIC, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with COMIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,139 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,815 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- COMIC sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 26 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).
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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).