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

COMMO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 72.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Clipping of communication.

Noun

Clipping of communist.

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 COMMO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COMMO 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 50.2% of games, misses completely in 49.8%, and leaves about 647 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,373 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe COMMO 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.

3.05 Entropy (bits)
647 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
72.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COMMO 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,373 Rank among openers
Opening with COMMO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,373 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
437
6 guesses
37
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
25%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

COMMO can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1183 answers
227 answers
168 answers
159 answers
119 answers
94 answers
38 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
12 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1M3M3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing COMMO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COMMO:

50% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

49.8%
RAISE 6.15 bits
9.6%
TRONE 5.30 bits
7.1%
TIARE 5.43 bits
6.7%
SLYER 4.63 bits
5.0%
RAILE 5.24 bits
4.0%
RAISE 5.30 bits
1.6%
PARLE 4.60 bits
1.3%
STORE 4.22 bits
1.3%
LIANE 4.08 bits
1.2%
TRINE 4.42 bits

Research on COMMO

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

Optimal play

Opening with COMMO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,278 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with COMMO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94; proven optimal play reaches 3.93. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 KAHMOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COMMO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).