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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tʃaɪm/
- Noun
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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
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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
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To make the sound of a chime.
“The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.”
- Verb
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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
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 6, 2023 (#839).
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See what the public sample says →How CHIME performs as a guess
CHIME 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,813 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHIME 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CHIME in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CHIME can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CHIME; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CHIME
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHIME.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHIME:
Research on CHIME
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHIME, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHIME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,675 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,663 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CHIME is a kind of instrument or go.
Synonyms bell gong
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CHIME sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 63 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.2 of 5).
In a sentence
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Where is that chime coming from?
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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).