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

CONVO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnvəʊ//ˈkɑnvoʊ/

Noun

A conversation.

Verb

To have a conversation, to converse.

“He's a fun dude to convo with.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

In a sentence

Sami didn't know how to start a convo.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Sami did not know how to start a convo.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use CONVO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 80.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How CONVO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CONVO 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 59.4% of games, misses completely in 40.6%, and leaves about 456 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,748 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 CONVO 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
456 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CONVO 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,748 Rank among openers
Opening with CONVO left 2 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,748 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
725
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
294
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
28%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

CONVO can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

968 answers
235 answers
152 answers
147 answers
135 answers
108 answers
71 answers
70 answers
40 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1V4O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing CONVO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONVO:

41% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
STRAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.6% →
TARSE 6.33 bits
9.9% →
TIARE 5.45 bits
6.4% →
STRAE 5.19 bits
6.2% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
5.7% →
RATEL 4.70 bits
4.5% →
IRATE 5.21 bits
3.0% →
LAIDE 4.34 bits
2.9% →
GLARE 4.42 bits
1.7% →
RAILE 4.73 bits
1.4% →
SIRED 3.65 bits

Research on CONVO

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

Optimal play

Opening with CONVO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,207 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,763 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CONVO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).