5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CUBBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kʌbi//ˈkʊbi/

Noun

A small, confined space.

Noun

A cell in a shelf for storing items, particularly in a school.

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 CUBBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CUBBY 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 55.1% of games, misses completely in 44.9%, and leaves about 547 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,203 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SORAL STONE HAOLE IRATE TARGE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.17 Entropy (bits)
547 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CUBBY 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,203 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CUBBY ranks #14,203 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
598
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
415
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
31%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1058
248
181
164
142
114
85
45
39
29
26
25
20
19
18
15
15
12
10
8
7
7
7
5
4
4
4
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUBBY:

45% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
8% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.9% →
TIARE 6.25 bits
10.5% →
SORAL 4.81 bits
7.7% →
STONE 5.32 bits
7.0% →
TIARE 5.44 bits
6.0% →
HAOLE 5.22 bits
4.8% →
IRATE 5.36 bits
3.6% →
TARGE 4.82 bits
1.9% →
SAMEL 3.02 bits
1.7% →
ALONE 4.66 bits
1.2% →
MAIRE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1B3B3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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