5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CHIME

Yes, CHIME was the Wordle answer on October 6, 2023 (Wordle #839).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tʃaɪm/

Noun

A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

“Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.”

Noun

An individual ringing component of such a set.

“Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.”

Verb

To make the sound of a chime.

“The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.”

Verb

To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

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: October 6, 2023 (#839).

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

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How CHIME performs as a guess

CHIME 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,813 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TALON SOLAR ROAST SLANT SLART STARY
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHIME 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,813 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHIME ranks #3,813 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
C H I D E
C H I M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHIME in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

454
330
202
159
99
68
66
66
58
54
50
50
34
33
29
28
28
27
27
26
25
24
22
21
20
19
17
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHIME:

19% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
TALON 5.92 bits
14.0% →
SOLAR 5.21 bits
8.6% →
ROAST 5.19 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.14 bits
4.2% →
SLART 5.02 bits
2.9% →
STARY 4.88 bits
2.8% →
MURAL 4.97 bits
2.8% →
RIPEN 4.58 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.86 bits
2.3% →
SLART 4.92 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1M3E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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