5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

CHICK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪk/

Noun

A young bird.

Noun

An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.

“This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.”

Verb

To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

Verb

To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.

Alternative forms: check, chik

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 CHICK performs as a guess

CHICK 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 55.1% of games, misses completely in 44.9%, and leaves about 543 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,728 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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ROATE TALER SLANE TARSE TORSE SOARE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.32 Entropy (bits)
543 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
77.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHICK 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,728 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHICK ranks #13,728 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
673
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
387
6 guesses
33
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:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
29%
All gray
45%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H I C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHICK in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1059
282
175
126
103
70
63
61
46
35
32
30
27
24
21
17
11
11
10
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
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7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHICK:

45% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.9% →
ROATE 6.07 bits
12.0% →
TALER 5.18 bits
7.4% →
SLANE 5.11 bits
5.3% →
TARSE 5.45 bits
4.4% →
ROATE 5.30 bits
3.0% →
TORSE 5.12 bits
2.7% →
ROATE 4.98 bits
2.6% →
SOARE 4.81 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 4.08 bits
1.5% →
SLANT 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1C3K5
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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