5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CUECA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɛkə/

Noun

A family of musical styles from parts of South America.

Noun

Any of the dances associated with the cueca musical style.

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 CUECA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CUECA 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 219 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,397 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

NOIRE SNORT TRAIL SLART SNOUT SLEET
Words starting with C Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
219 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CUECA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#12,397 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CUECA ranks #12,397 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
344
6 guesses
34
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

393
368
347
242
114
92
86
61
46
37
36
35
35
32
27
26
24
24
23
22
19
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10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUECA:

17% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
16% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
15% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
NOIRE 5.27 bits
15.6% →
SNORT 5.70 bits
14.7% →
TRAIL 5.28 bits
10.3% →
SLART 4.88 bits
4.8% →
SNOUT 5.08 bits
3.9% →
SLEET 4.85 bits
3.6% →
SURLY 3.76 bits
2.6% →
REUSE 4.45 bits
2.0% →
SLART 4.14 bits
1.6% →
AROMA 3.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1E1C3A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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