5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

COYED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of coy

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 COYED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COYED 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,303 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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

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

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COYED 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,303 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COYED ranks #4,303 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
12
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)
85%
Green tile
34%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

352
349
175
175
161
83
71
70
66
64
63
46
41
40
36
35
35
27
26
26
22
21
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19
18
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16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COYED:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SLANT 6.28 bits
14.8% →
SLART 5.89 bits
7.4% →
STAIR 4.72 bits
7.4% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
6.8% →
SAINT 4.96 bits
3.5% →
SHALT 4.73 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.21 bits
3.0% →
SHART 4.52 bits
2.8% →
CHAIR 4.47 bits
2.7% →
LEARE 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1Y4E1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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