5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COXED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of cox

Adjective

Having a cox

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 COXED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COXED 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,618 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___D C in the 1st position and D in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position CO_ED C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART ARSON STAIR SALTY SHALT
Words starting with C Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
231 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COXED 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,618 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COXED ranks #9,618 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
763
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
13
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
33%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

515
390
189
181
111
99
76
76
73
68
64
40
36
36
28
26
24
22
21
21
20
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9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COXED:

22% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SAINT 6.18 bits
16.5% →
SLART 5.86 bits
8.0% →
ARSON 5.24 bits
7.7% →
STAIR 4.68 bits
4.7% →
SALTY 4.60 bits
4.2% →
SHALT 4.74 bits
3.2% →
GEARE 4.59 bits
3.2% →
LAIRY 4.65 bits
3.1% →
SNARE 4.25 bits
2.9% →
DAILY 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1X8E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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