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CORAL

Yes, CORAL was the Wordle answer on August 7, 2025 (Wordle #1510).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹəl//ˈkɔɹəl/

Noun

Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.

Noun

A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.

Adjective

Made of coral.

Adjective

Having the orange-pink color of coral.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 7, 2025 (#1510).

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

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How CORAL performs as a guess

CORAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #412 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CORAL.

First-turn measures

All four describe CORAL 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.

5.34 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CORAL 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#412 Rank among openers
Opening with CORAL solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #412 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
1,037
4 guesses
1,033
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
33%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B A L M Y
C O R A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CORAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CORAL can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

289 answers
208 answers
175 answers
139 answers
128 answers
110 answers
96 answers
92 answers
85 answers
64 answers
56 answers
41 answers
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28 answers
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18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1R1A1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SIENT SMITE SEINE STILE STANE STALE

Strategy after playing CORAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CORAL:

12% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
9% chance
Suggested:
SMITE
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
SIENT 6.21 bits
8.8% →
SMITE 5.40 bits
7.4% →
SEINE 5.10 bits
5.9% →
STILE 5.29 bits
5.4% →
STANE 4.62 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.80 bits
4.0% →
SIENT 5.17 bits
3.9% →
STONE 4.35 bits
3.6% →
STONE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
SINCE 4.93 bits

Research on CORAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with CORAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #674 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #251 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 KAWRUHL.

Rhymes with MORAL AURAL SOREL BOREL LORAL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CORAL is a kind of pink or stone.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CORAL sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 86 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom discovered a new species of coral.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Coral reefs are home to millions of species.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).