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CHECK

Yes, CHECK was the Wordle answer on March 4, 2025 (Wordle #1354).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛk/[t͡ʃʰɛk̚]

Noun

An inspection or examination.

“I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.”

Noun

A control; a limit or stop.

“checks and balances”

Verb

To inspect; to examine.

“Check the oil in your car once a month.”

Verb

To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

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: March 4, 2025 (#1354).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 4, 2025 (#1354).

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

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How CHECK performs as a guess

CHECK 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 67.3% of games, misses completely in 32.7%, and leaves about 449 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,053 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHECK 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.

3.46 Entropy (bits)
449 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHECK 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,053 Rank among openers
Opening with CHECK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,053 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
642
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
406
6 guesses
35
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
25%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B A D L Y
C H E C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHECK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHECK can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

776 answers
644 answers
111 answers
106 answers
68 answers
66 answers
50 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1C3K5
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

TALON RAILE ROAST SLART ROANY SONAR

Strategy after playing CHECK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHECK:

33% chance
Suggested:
TALON
27% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
5% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.7% →
TALON 5.86 bits
27.1% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
4.7% →
ROAST 5.02 bits
4.5% →
SLART 5.16 bits
2.9% →
ROANY 4.85 bits
2.8% →
SONAR 4.91 bits
2.1% →
ROATE 4.73 bits
1.8% →
ROAST 4.38 bits
1.8% →
TRAVE 4.37 bits
1.7% →
SOARE 4.24 bits

Research on CHECK

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHECK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,184 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,053 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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 CHEHK.

Rhymes with WRECK SPECK FLECK BLECH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHECK is a kind of draft or assessment.

Synonyms see stop control WATCH stay hold

Opposites disagree

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHECK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 204 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 43 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I have to check it.
© tatoeba.org contributor TheNightAvl (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We have to check that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).