5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COXES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of 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 COXES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COXES 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,171 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CO_ES C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL TIARE SAULT LATER TALON SLART
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.38 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COXES 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,171 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COXES ranks #11,171 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
23
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
31%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

395
347
210
170
167
133
120
76
71
62
61
50
49
41
30
28
27
22
22
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COXES:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
TRAIL 5.95 bits
14.7% →
TIARE 5.43 bits
8.9% →
SAULT 5.31 bits
7.2% →
LATER 4.43 bits
7.1% →
TALON 5.07 bits
5.6% →
SLART 4.98 bits
5.1% →
MOLDY 4.05 bits
3.2% →
RAINY 4.56 bits
3.0% →
LAIRY 4.69 bits
2.6% →
LEARE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1X8E1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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