CHARK
CHARK is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)k/
- Noun
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Charcoal; coke.
- Noun
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A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
- Verb
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To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
- Verb
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To make a grating sound.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Cognate with Scots chork, from Middle English charken, cherkin, from Old English ċearcian, variant of cracian (“to resound, make an abrasive sound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle; to shriek”). Doublet of chirk, crack, and crake.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
Use CHARK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →How CHARK performs as a guess
Wordle accepts CHARK 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 230 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHARK 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 CHARK 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
Feedback distribution
CHARK can come back 101 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 CHARK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing CHARK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHARK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHARK:
Research on CHARK
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHARK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHARK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,495 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,840 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CHARK 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).