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CHEST

Yes, CHEST was the Wordle answer on March 24, 2022 (Wordle #278).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛst//t͡ʃɪst/

Noun

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

“The clothes are kept in a chest.”

Noun

The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

“You can take the money from the chest.”

Verb

To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

Verb

To deposit in a chest.

Alternative forms: chist

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 24, 2022 (#278).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 24, 2022 (#278).

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

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How CHEST performs as a guess

CHEST 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,384 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHEST 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHEST 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% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,384 Rank among openers
Opening with CHEST solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,384 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
944
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
31%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
G U E S T
C H E S T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHEST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHEST can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

425 answers
414 answers
114 answers
96 answers
94 answers
77 answers
76 answers
68 answers
50 answers
50 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1S1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

DAILY RAILE RAINY TITAN TIARE ALINE

Strategy after playing CHEST

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHEST:

18% chance
Suggested:
DAILY
17% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
5% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
DAILY 5.68 bits
17.4% →
RAILE 5.45 bits
4.8% →
RAINY 5.02 bits
4.0% →
TITAN 5.06 bits
4.0% →
TIARE 4.70 bits
3.2% →
ALINE 4.49 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.83 bits
2.9% →
RAINE 4.69 bits
2.1% →
ROANY 4.14 bits
2.1% →
DEARE 4.16 bits

Research on CHEST

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHEST, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,997 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 CHEST can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 CHEHST.

Rhymes with GUEST QUEST CREST WREST BLEST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHEST is a kind of part or box.

Synonyms bureau breast dresser

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHEST sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 33 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: 87 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I want to see your chest.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You have a small chest.
© tatoeba.org contributor FeuDRenais2 (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).