5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COWAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊən//ˈkaʊən/

Noun

A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.

Noun

A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.

Alternative forms: kowan, cowen

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 COWAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COWAN 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,713 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SILER TARSE TROPE TUILE STOLE SETER
Words starting with C Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.58 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COWAN 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,713 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COWAN ranks #5,713 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

493
366
155
144
125
87
78
73
58
54
52
46
43
39
33
31
26
26
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23
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COWAN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SILER
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TROPE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
SILER 6.05 bits
15.5% →
TARSE 5.59 bits
6.6% →
TROPE 5.05 bits
6.1% →
TUILE 5.20 bits
5.3% →
STOLE 4.51 bits
3.7% →
TARSE 4.31 bits
3.3% →
SETER 4.53 bits
3.1% →
TUILE 5.01 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.73 bits
2.3% →
ABORT 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1W4A1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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