5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CHIPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪps/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of chip

Noun

plural of chip

Noun

A carpenter.

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 CHIPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHIPS 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,884 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.

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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__P_ C in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TILDE GLARE PARLE REACT LATER
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHIPS 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
0.67 Volatility
#3,884 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHIPS ranks #3,884 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
926
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
11
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

720
227
197
114
94
92
75
71
68
46
44
43
43
35
35
33
25
23
22
22
19
18
18
17
14
13
12
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHIPS:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
ROATE 5.99 bits
9.6% →
ROATE 5.65 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 5.23 bits
4.8% →
GLARE 5.12 bits
4.0% →
ROATE 5.11 bits
3.9% →
PARLE 5.18 bits
3.2% →
ROATE 5.28 bits
3.0% →
REACT 5.16 bits
2.9% →
LATER 4.83 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1P3S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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