5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CHICA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Latin-American girl; a Latina.

Noun

An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.

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 CHICA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHICA 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 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 308 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,504 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___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _H__A H in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER TARSE TILDE TRONE ROUTE SLART
Words starting with C Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
308 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHICA 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
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,504 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHICA ranks #12,504 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
346
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
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
30%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

610
503
211
156
75
67
58
52
50
50
42
38
34
34
32
28
27
25
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHICA:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.9% →
SOLER 6.01 bits
21.3% →
TARSE 5.46 bits
8.9% →
TILDE 5.07 bits
6.6% →
TRONE 4.99 bits
3.2% →
ROUTE 4.97 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.62 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.85 bits
2.2% →
PROLE 4.46 bits
2.1% →
STARE 4.66 bits
2.1% →
TORSE 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1C3A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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