5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CHINE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪn/

Noun

The top of a ridge.

Noun

The spine of an animal.

Verb

To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

Verb

To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Alternative forms: chimb, chime

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 CHINE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHINE 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,622 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOLAR SLART SALTY SALON SAURY ROAST
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.06 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHINE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,622 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHINE ranks #1,622 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
21
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:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
39%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

395
291
193
132
83
79
71
69
67
54
51
48
47
43
37
30
29
29
27
27
27
24
23
23
21
21
18
18
18
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHINE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
12% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
SOLAR 5.98 bits
12.3% →
SOLAR 5.25 bits
8.2% →
SLART 5.20 bits
5.6% →
SALTY 4.88 bits
3.5% →
SALON 5.08 bits
3.4% →
SOLAR 4.38 bits
3.0% →
SAURY 4.78 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.53 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.97 bits
2.3% →
SLART 4.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1N1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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