Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

COXIB

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any COX-2 selective inhibitor.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use COXIB in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How COXIB performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COXIB 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 68.0% of games, misses completely in 32.0%, and leaves about 348 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,881 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe COXIB 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
348 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COXIB 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,881 Rank among openers
Opening with COXIB left 4 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 3.81 average. It ranks #11,881 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,299
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
26%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

COXIB can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

764 answers
327 answers
227 answers
183 answers
114 answers
112 answers
94 answers
85 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1X8I1B3
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing COXIB

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COXIB:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
10% chance
Suggested:
SNORT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.0% →
TARSE 6.29 bits
13.7% →
TRINE 5.43 bits
9.5% →
SNORT 5.21 bits
7.7% →
RATEL 4.75 bits
4.8% →
LEANT 5.29 bits
4.7% →
BLAER 5.41 bits
3.9% →
PRATE 5.19 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 5.04 bits
1.8% →
SPICE 4.03 bits
1.6% →
BARON 4.43 bits

Research on COXIB

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

Optimal play

Opening with COXIB, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,076 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,689 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).