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CHEEK

Yes, CHEEK was the Wordle answer on April 16, 2022 (Wordle #301).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːk/

Noun

The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.

Noun

The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.

Verb

To be impudent towards.

“Don't cheek me, you little rascal!”

Verb

To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

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: April 16, 2022 (#301).

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

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How CHEEK performs as a guess

CHEEK 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 67.2% of games, misses completely in 32.8%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,715 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TALON RAILE SOLAR ROAST ROANY SONAR
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
346 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHEEK 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,715 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHEEK ranks #12,715 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
716
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
32%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHEEK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

773
376
175
110
77
72
62
50
46
44
42
41
36
34
33
28
27
24
23
22
19
19
19
15
14
14
12
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHEEK:

33% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.8% →
TALON 5.86 bits
15.9% →
RAILE 5.23 bits
7.4% →
SOLAR 4.60 bits
4.7% →
ROAST 4.99 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.89 bits
3.1% →
SONAR 4.99 bits
2.6% →
SLART 5.02 bits
2.1% →
TIARE 4.52 bits
2.0% →
REAST 4.18 bits
1.9% →
SAUNT 3.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1E1K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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