CHOCK
Yes, CHOCK was the Wordle answer on November 28, 2024 (Wordle #1258).
As an opener, it rules out about 77.2% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /tʃɒk//t͡ʃɑk/
- Noun
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Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
- Noun
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Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
- Verb
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To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
- Verb
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To insert a line in a chock.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 28, 2024 (#1258).
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See what the public sample says →How CHOCK performs as a guess
CHOCK 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 55.3% of games, misses completely in 44.7%, and leaves about 542 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,694 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHOCK 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 CHOCK 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 CHOCK in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CHOCK can come back 60 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 CHOCK; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CHOCK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHOCK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHOCK:
Research on CHOCK
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHOCK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHOCK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,833 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,707 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CHOCK sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
In a sentence
The streets were chock-a-block.
My flat is chock-full of stuff I never use.
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).