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COVER

Yes, COVER was the Wordle answer on June 18, 2024 (Wordle #1095).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvɚ//ˈkʌvə//ˈkʊvə/

Noun

A lid.

Noun

Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

“The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.”

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

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: June 18, 2024 (#1095).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 18, 2024 (#1095).

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

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How COVER performs as a guess

COVER 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,622 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position CO_ER C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COVER 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COVER 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,622 Rank among openers
Opening with COVER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,622 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
910
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
205
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
33%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
A R R O W
C O V E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COVER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COVER can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

412 answers
314 answers
177 answers
135 answers
123 answers
107 answers
91 answers
85 answers
83 answers
70 answers
52 answers
49 answers
48 answers
36 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
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18 answers
17 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1V4E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLATE TIARE SLANT SALTY SAULT

Strategy after playing COVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COVER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SAINT 6.10 bits
13.2% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
7.5% →
SAINT 5.33 bits
5.7% →
TIARE 4.76 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
4.5% →
SALTY 4.58 bits
3.8% →
SAULT 3.87 bits
3.6% →
SAINT 4.77 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.87 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.08 bits

Research on COVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with COVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,160 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with COVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 KUHVUR.

Rhymes with LOVER HOVER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COVER is a kind of covering or bedding.

Synonyms back top deal report continue TRACK

Opposites uncover

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COVER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 120 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Can you cover for me?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Will you cover for me?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).