5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CONEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica.

Noun

Ellipsis of Coney Island hot dog.

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 CONEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONEY 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 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,139 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position CO_EY C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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SLART STAIR SAULT SEINE SHART TRAIL
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.99 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CONEY 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,139 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CONEY ranks #3,139 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
19
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)
88%
Green tile
45%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
286
158
157
148
116
68
64
63
62
52
52
50
48
48
42
36
33
26
24
23
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20
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONEY:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SLART 5.88 bits
12.1% →
SLART 6.27 bits
6.7% →
STAIR 4.68 bits
6.7% →
SAULT 4.73 bits
6.3% →
SLART 5.10 bits
4.9% →
STAIR 5.15 bits
2.9% →
STAIR 4.79 bits
2.7% →
SEINE 4.59 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.25 bits
2.6% →
SHART 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1E1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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