5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

CHESS

CHESS is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛs/

Noun

A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

Noun

Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CHESS performs as a guess

CHESS 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,315 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON RAILE SAINT PARTE ROANY NORTH
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.03 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHESS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,315 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHESS ranks #12,315 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
725
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
30
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
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
25%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHESS in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

596
530
174
100
84
75
73
63
54
44
41
40
40
39
37
37
26
22
22
16
15
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHESS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
22% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
TALON 5.89 bits
22.5% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
7.4% →
SAINT 5.13 bits
4.2% →
PARTE 4.76 bits
3.6% →
ROANY 4.87 bits
3.2% →
NORTH 4.80 bits
3.1% →
TREAD 4.55 bits
2.7% →
LAIRY 4.59 bits
2.3% →
REACT 4.56 bits
1.9% →
SAUNT 3.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1S1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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