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CHEAT

Yes, CHEAT was the Wordle answer on December 2, 2021 (Wordle #166).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːt/[ˈt͡ʃʰɪi̯t]

Verb

To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

“My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.”

Verb

To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.

“My husband cheated on me with his secretary.”

Noun

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

Noun

Someone who cheats.

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: December 2, 2021 (#166).

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

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How CHEAT performs as a guess

CHEAT 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,900 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE SOLID SALON GLARE POIRE SOILY
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHEAT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,900 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHEAT ranks #2,900 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,089
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
32%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
C H E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHEAT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

333
311
213
159
79
72
72
60
54
49
45
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHEAT:

14% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
9% chance
Suggested:
SALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.1% →
RIONE 5.32 bits
13.2% →
SOLID 5.54 bits
9.0% →
SALON 5.05 bits
6.7% →
GLARE 4.72 bits
3.4% →
POIRE 4.54 bits
3.1% →
SOILY 4.68 bits
3.1% →
SOILY 4.65 bits
2.5% →
SATIN 4.26 bits
2.3% →
SLIER 4.31 bits
2.1% →
SONLY 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1A1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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