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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CHEAP

Yes, CHEAP was the Wordle answer on January 3, 2025 (Wordle #1294).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːp/[ˈt͡ʃʰɪi̯p]

Adjective

Low or reduced in price.

Adjective

Of poor quality.

Noun

Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

Noun

A market; marketplace.

Alternative forms: chap, chop, ch3ap

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: January 3, 2025 (#1294).

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

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How CHEAP performs as a guess

CHEAP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,099 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY RIONE TALON SLART PRISE SETER
Words starting with C Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHEAP 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#5,099 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHEAP ranks #5,099 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
892
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
S E P I A
C H E A P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHEAP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

372
365
268
187
72
66
65
64
61
50
44
42
36
34
33
31
28
28
27
25
24
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19
16
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHEAP:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
15% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
SOILY 5.60 bits
15.5% →
RIONE 5.22 bits
11.4% →
TALON 5.19 bits
7.9% →
SLART 4.91 bits
3.1% →
PRISE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
SETER 4.62 bits
2.8% →
SOUTH 4.51 bits
2.7% →
TONAL 4.46 bits
2.6% →
PILOT 4.89 bits
2.1% →
SOILY 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1A1P3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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