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CHARE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛə//t͡ʃɛɹ/

Noun

Alternative form of char ("turn, task, chore, worker").

Noun

A narrow lane or passage between houses in a town.

Verb

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs; to char.

Alternative forms: char, chore

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 CHARE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHARE 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,695 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHARE 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.

5.45 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHARE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,695 Rank among openers
Opening with CHARE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,695 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,055
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
14
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

CHARE can come back 135 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

306 answers
195 answers
172 answers
148 answers
122 answers
122 answers
74 answers
65 answers
61 answers
57 answers
57 answers
56 answers
54 answers
44 answers
40 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4A1R1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOLID TALON INTEL SEINE SOILY DROIT

Strategy after playing CHARE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHARE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
INTEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
SOLID 5.60 bits
8.2% →
TALON 5.34 bits
7.2% →
INTEL 5.20 bits
6.2% →
SEINE 3.95 bits
5.1% →
SOILY 4.71 bits
5.1% →
DROIT 4.86 bits
3.1% →
MAYOR 4.25 bits
2.7% →
METAL 4.42 bits
2.6% →
POISE 3.81 bits
2.4% →
SLANT 4.63 bits

Research on CHARE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHARE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,145 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CHARE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

One syllable Say it CHAHR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHARE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).