CHAMP
Yes, CHAMP was the Wordle answer on December 18, 2021 (Wordle #182).
As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæmp//ʃæmp/
- Noun
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Clipping of champion.
- Noun
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Clipping of championship.
“The team failed to make it to the Champs.”
- Verb
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To act or behave like a champ; to endure.
- Verb
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To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
Alternative forms: champe
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: December 18, 2021 (#182).
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See what the public sample says →How CHAMP performs as a guess
CHAMP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 293 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,610 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHAMP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CHAMP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CHAMP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CHAMP can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CHAMP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CHAMP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHAMP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHAMP:
Research on CHAMP
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHAMP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,195 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,052 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CHAMP is a kind of competition or jaw.
Synonyms champion
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CHAMP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 8 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.6 of 5).
In a sentence
Tom is still the champ.
Tom is going to be the champ.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).