5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

CORNY

Yes, CORNY was the Wordle answer on September 25, 2021 (Wordle #98).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːni//ˈkɔɹni/

Adjective

Boring and unoriginal.

“The duct tape and wire was a pretty corny solution.”

Adjective

Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

“The movie was okay, but the love scene was really corny.”

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: September 25, 2021 (#98).

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

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How CORNY performs as a guess

CORNY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,579 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE TEASE SAULT ANILE TRADE SHALE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CORNY 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,579 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CORNY ranks #1,579 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
992
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
41%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
C O R N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CORNY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
281
153
121
120
90
89
76
64
60
54
44
44
43
40
38
32
30
27
27
25
22
21
21
19
19
16
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CORNY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
SLATE 6.57 bits
11.9% →
TEASE 5.35 bits
6.5% →
SAULT 4.81 bits
5.1% →
ANILE 5.15 bits
5.1% →
SLATE 5.20 bits
3.8% →
TRADE 4.37 bits
3.8% →
SHALE 5.09 bits
3.2% →
STAGE 4.89 bits
2.7% →
TUILE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
SETAE 4.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1R1N1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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