5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

COOPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kuːps/

Noun

plural of coop

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of coop

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 COOPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COOPS 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 66.5% of games, misses completely in 33.5%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,331 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__P_ C in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STALE TALER TIARE MANOR GRATE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COOPS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,331 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COOPS ranks #9,331 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
19
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:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
30%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

789
314
140
128
114
114
103
80
74
37
32
32
28
23
19
19
18
17
15
14
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COOPS:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE
6% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.5% →
RAILE 6.26 bits
13.3% →
STALE 5.63 bits
5.9% →
TALER 4.54 bits
5.4% →
TIARE 5.35 bits
4.8% →
RAILE 5.46 bits
4.8% →
MANOR 5.12 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
3.4% →
GRATE 4.76 bits
3.1% →
STARE 5.08 bits
1.6% →
TRINE 4.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1O1P3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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