COUGH
COUGH is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kɒf//kɔːf//kɔf/
- Verb
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Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
“Sometimes she coughed up blood.”
- Verb
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To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
“He almost coughed himself into a fit.”
- Noun
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A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
“Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.”
- Noun
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A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
“whooping cough”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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How COUGH performs as a guess
COUGH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,087 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
As an opener: v5 benchmark
How COUGH 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches COUGH in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:
Quick reference
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Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for COUGH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
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