Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

CHIRT

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

No dictionary definition for CHIRT is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 CHIRT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHIRT 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #755 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHIRT 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHIRT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#755 Rank among openers
Opening with CHIRT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #755 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,041
4 guesses
1,062
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

CHIRT can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

473 answers
286 answers
143 answers
138 answers
89 answers
82 answers
67 answers
65 answers
61 answers
60 answers
54 answers
49 answers
49 answers
43 answers
35 answers
34 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4I1R1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing CHIRT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHIRT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHIRT:

20% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAYNE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9%
ALOSE 6.07 bits
12.0%
ALONE 5.03 bits
6.0%
SAYNE 5.31 bits
5.8%
SIDLE 5.12 bits
3.7%
SLANE 5.38 bits
3.5%
SLANE 5.25 bits
2.8%
SANED 4.45 bits
2.7%
SLANE 5.13 bits
2.6%
POTAE 4.65 bits
2.5%
SLADE 4.68 bits

Research on CHIRT

Game-tree analysis and word research for CHIRT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CHIRT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,583 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CHIRT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it CHURT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.