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CHAOS

Yes, CHAOS was the Wordle answer on May 31, 2024 (Wordle #1077).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪɒs//ˈkeɪˌɑs//ˈkæɪ.ɔs/

Noun

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

Noun

Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

“to descend into chaos”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 31, 2024 (#1077).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 31, 2024 (#1077).

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

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How CHAOS performs as a guess

CHAOS 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,857 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CHAOS.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHAOS 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHAOS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,857 Rank among openers
Opening with CHAOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,857 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
30%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G U A N O
C H A O S

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHAOS in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHAOS can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

430 answers
280 answers
216 answers
178 answers
119 answers
81 answers
72 answers
65 answers
56 answers
56 answers
53 answers
42 answers
42 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
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25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4A1O1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

DINER TALER DRONE SIENT TRIDE SALET

Strategy after playing CHAOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHAOS:

18% chance
Suggested:
DINER
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
DRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
DINER 6.02 bits
11.8% →
TALER 5.52 bits
9.1% →
DRONE 5.19 bits
7.5% →
SIENT 5.40 bits
5.0% →
TRIDE 4.97 bits
3.4% →
SALET 4.83 bits
3.0% →
STORE 4.61 bits
2.7% →
DROLE 4.33 bits
2.4% →
TRIDE 4.27 bits
2.4% →
STILE 4.29 bits

Research on CHAOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHAOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,026 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,184 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAYAHS.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHAOS is a kind of confusion or phenomenon.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHAOS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 19 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

The world is in chaos.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The city is in chaos.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nylez (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).