Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CONED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

segregated or delineated by traffic cones (of an area)

Adjective

Shaped like a cone.

Verb

simple past and past participle of cone

“He coned the top of the pottery to make it look like a dunce cap.”

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 CONED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONED 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #249 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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

5.06 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CONED 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#249 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CONED ranks #249 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,020
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
136
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
37%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

115 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

373
321
138
133
117
90
77
66
59
58
55
53
51
49
36
34
31
31
28
24
21
20
19
19
18
18
17
17
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONED:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
6% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8%
SLART 6.17 bits
13.6%
SLART 6.00 bits
5.9%
STAIR 4.59 bits
5.6%
SLART 5.21 bits
5.0%
SAINT 5.34 bits
3.8%
SALTY 4.59 bits
3.3%
SLART 4.71 bits
2.8%
GEARE 4.61 bits
2.5%
RAINE 4.48 bits
2.5%
SLART 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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