5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CHOIL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔɪl/

Noun

An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.

Noun

The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

“This knife's large finger choil helps compensate for the short handle.”

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 CHOIL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOIL 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,766 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _H__L H in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRINE SABLE RONTE PRATE STILE
Words starting with C Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.83 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHOIL 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,766 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHOIL ranks #1,766 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
1,015
4 guesses
1,086
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

488
215
198
185
115
72
67
65
65
60
50
47
42
42
32
32
28
27
27
25
25
21
19
19
18
17
16
16
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOIL:

21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
8% chance
Suggested:
SABLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
TARSE 6.26 bits
9.1% →
TRINE 5.46 bits
8.4% →
SABLE 5.31 bits
7.8% →
RONTE 5.33 bits
4.9% →
PRATE 4.85 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.46 bits
2.8% →
REAST 5.34 bits
2.8% →
TRADE 5.03 bits
2.8% →
STARY 5.11 bits
2.5% →
PATER 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1I1L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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