5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CHINK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/

Noun

A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

Noun

A chip or dent in something metallic.

“The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.”

Verb

To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

“to chink a wall”

Verb

To crack; to open.

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.

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__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TILDE SOREL SLATE TARSE PORAE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.14 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHINK 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,691 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHINK ranks #6,691 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
868
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
217
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
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
29%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

818
198
166
115
109
87
78
75
73
61
43
41
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27
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20
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHINK:

35% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 5.21 bits
7.0% →
SOREL 5.36 bits
4.9% →
SLATE 5.13 bits
4.6% →
TARSE 5.41 bits
3.7% →
PORAE 5.27 bits
3.3% →
TIARE 4.46 bits
3.2% →
ROATE 4.80 bits
3.1% →
SERAL 5.20 bits
2.6% →
TARSE 5.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1N1K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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