5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

COMIC

COMIC is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪk//ˈkɑmɪk/

Adjective

Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.

“comic genius”

Adjective

Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.

Noun

A comedian.

“She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.”

Noun

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.

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

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 COMIC performs as a guess

COMIC is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 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 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___C C in the 1st position and C in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__C O in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRINE TALER LEANT PARLE SLART
Words starting with C Words ending with C

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,635 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COMIC ranks #11,635 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
27%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
C O N C H
C O M I C

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COMIC in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

759
327
237
170
111
94
88
78
42
38
34
33
28
27
27
23
20
16
16
13
12
11
11
10
9
8
8
8
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMIC:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
TARSE 6.30 bits
13.9% →
TRINE 5.48 bits
10.1% →
TARSE 5.25 bits
7.2% →
TALER 4.61 bits
4.7% →
LEANT 5.36 bits
4.0% →
PARLE 5.30 bits
3.7% →
SLART 5.11 bits
3.3% →
LATER 5.13 bits
1.8% →
TRICE 4.13 bits
1.6% →
PIVOT 3.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3I1C3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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