5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COPES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cope

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of cope

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 COPES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COPES 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,665 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CO_ES C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL LEARE SAULT TALON LATER LAIRY
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.93 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COPES 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,665 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COPES ranks #2,665 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
945
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
12
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
33%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

330
312
169
149
147
111
106
67
61
54
53
52
39
39
39
38
35
27
26
26
23
21
21
20
17
17
16
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COPES:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
13% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
TRAIL 5.98 bits
13.2% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
7.2% →
SAULT 5.34 bits
6.3% →
TALON 5.13 bits
6.2% →
LATER 4.48 bits
4.7% →
LAIRY 4.14 bits
4.5% →
SLART 4.95 bits
2.8% →
RAINY 4.60 bits
2.6% →
RAINY 4.59 bits
2.3% →
LEARE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1P3E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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