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

CONIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Synonym of coniine.

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 CONIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONIA 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 CONIA 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CONIA 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,593 Rank among openers
Opening with CONIA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,593 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
959
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
20
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AINO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
32%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

CONIA can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
290 answers
212 answers
140 answers
138 answers
75 answers
69 answers
65 answers
58 answers
51 answers
50 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing CONIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONIA:

16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0%
TARSE 5.65 bits
12.2%
SLEER 5.85 bits
8.9%
STILE 5.45 bits
5.9%
SLYER 4.46 bits
5.8%
STURE 5.06 bits
3.2%
LEAST 4.56 bits
2.9%
TARGE 4.06 bits
2.7%
SETER 4.87 bits
2.4%
LEAST 4.55 bits
2.1%
PRATE 4.41 bits

Research on CONIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with CONIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,475 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,704 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KOHNYUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.