CHEER
Yes, CHEER was the Wordle answer on March 9, 2024 (Wordle #994).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪə//t͡ʃɪː//t͡ʃɪjə/
- Noun
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A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
- Noun
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That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness, especially food and entertainment prepared for a festive occasion.
“a table loaded with good cheer”
- Verb
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To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
“We were cheered by the offer of a cup of tea.”
- Verb
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To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English chere, from Anglo-Norman chere, from Old French chiere (“head, face; appearance; reception, hospitality; meal, dinner, food”) (Modern French chère), from Late Latin cara (“head”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it CHIHR.
Rhymes with CLEAR SHEER QUEER STEER SPEAR
Related meanings
Synonyms sunshine urge inspire recreate
Opposites complain
In a sentence
Will you cheer for me?
This will cheer you up.
Use CHEER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% 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
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 9, 2024 (#994).
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See what the public sample says →CHEER in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #724
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CHEER appeared in SUPPORT AUDIBLY (green group).
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· Puzzle #394
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CHEER appeared in TV SHOWS MINUS “S” (blue group).
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· Puzzle #234
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CHEER appeared in MERRIMENT (yellow group).
How CHEER performs as a guess
CHEER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,763 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHEER 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 CHEER 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
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CHEER in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CHEER can come back 98 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 CHEER; 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 CHEER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHEER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHEER:
Research on CHEER
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHEER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHEER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,448 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CHEER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
- CHEER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 70 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.8 of 5).
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).