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

COOER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who coos.

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 COOER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COOER 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,262 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 COOER 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COOER 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,262 Rank among openers
Opening with COOER left 3 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,262 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
240
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
41%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

COOER can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

432 answers
339 answers
183 answers
147 answers
101 answers
95 answers
90 answers
85 answers
57 answers
53 answers
51 answers
46 answers
45 answers
35 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1O1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing COOER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COOER:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2%
SAINT 6.11 bits
14.3%
SLATE 5.73 bits
7.7%
SAINT 5.31 bits
6.2%
TIARE 4.69 bits
4.3%
SAINT 3.84 bits
4.0%
SLANT 4.80 bits
3.8%
SALTY 4.60 bits
3.6%
SAINT 4.77 bits
2.4%
BATON 4.87 bits
2.2%
LEASE 4.60 bits

Research on COOER

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

Optimal play

Opening with COOER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,047 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with COOER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 KOOUR. 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.