5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kuːnz/

Noun

plural of coon

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of coon

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.

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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STARE ARIEL TIARE TALER LATER
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COONS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,615 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COONS ranks #7,615 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
231
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
34%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

687
318
159
112
111
97
85
85
64
44
38
35
34
33
33
33
25
19
19
18
17
17
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16
15
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14
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COONS:

29% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
RAILE 6.27 bits
13.5% →
STARE 5.70 bits
6.7% →
ARIEL 5.36 bits
4.7% →
TIARE 5.40 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.63 bits
4.1% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
3.6% →
TIARE 4.99 bits
3.6% →
LATER 4.99 bits
2.7% →
BLATE 4.68 bits
1.9% →
TIARE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1O1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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