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

CONNE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of con.

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 CONNE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONNE 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,030 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 CONNE 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.

4.58 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CONNE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,030 Rank among openers
Opening with CONNE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,030 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
44%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

CONNE can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

455 answers
348 answers
225 answers
162 answers
117 answers
85 answers
84 answers
77 answers
61 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing CONNE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONNE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
15% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2%
SLART 6.06 bits
14.7%
STAIR 5.31 bits
9.5%
SLART 5.31 bits
6.8%
SLART 5.17 bits
4.9%
SALTY 4.58 bits
3.6%
SAULT 4.87 bits
3.5%
STAIR 4.81 bits
3.2%
ARIEL 4.46 bits
2.6%
SLART 4.56 bits
2.1%
SNAIL 4.79 bits

Research on CONNE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CONNE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,199 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,697 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it KAHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CONNE 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).