5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CONTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An Italian count.

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 CONTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONTE 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,206 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SURLY ARIEL GLARE SLART DROOL SLANG
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.39 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CONTE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,206 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CONTE ranks #1,206 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
979
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
17
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:
ENOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

296
221
166
116
107
103
83
72
69
57
51
50
48
45
42
35
32
31
30
28
28
28
26
25
24
24
21
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONTE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
GLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
SURLY 5.60 bits
9.4% →
ARIEL 5.07 bits
7.0% →
GLARE 4.62 bits
4.9% →
SLART 5.38 bits
4.5% →
SLART 4.89 bits
4.4% →
DROOL 4.91 bits
3.5% →
SLANG 4.89 bits
3.1% →
SADLY 4.41 bits
2.9% →
ARIEL 4.53 bits
2.4% →
SHALY 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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