Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

CHETH

CHETH is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of heth.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 CHETH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHETH as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.8% of games, misses completely in 24.2%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,592 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHETH 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHETH 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,592 Rank among openers
Opening with CHETH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,592 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
744
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
27
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:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
28%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

CHETH can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

575 answers
517 answers
223 answers
124 answers
83 answers
81 answers
76 answers
52 answers
48 answers
44 answers
44 answers
36 answers
36 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4E1T1H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing CHETH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHETH:

24% chance
Suggested:
SALON
22% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2%
SALON 5.85 bits
21.8%
RAILE 5.41 bits
9.4%
SAINT 5.44 bits
5.2%
LEARE 4.81 bits
3.5%
SOLAR 4.97 bits
3.4%
ROANY 4.79 bits
3.2%
SARED 4.48 bits
2.2%
RANEE 4.41 bits
2.0%
SONAR 4.03 bits
1.9%
PRASE 4.06 bits

Research on CHETH

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHETH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,494 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,260 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 CHEHTH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.