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

CHOKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of chokey.

Noun

Alternative form of chokey.

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 CHOKY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOKY 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 65.0% of games, misses completely in 35.0%, and leaves about 360 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,247 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__K_ C in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _H__Y H in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CHOKY.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHOKY 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHOKY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,247 Rank among openers
Opening with CHOKY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,247 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
809
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
27
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:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
36%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

CHOKY can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

830 answers
248 answers
206 answers
135 answers
94 answers
89 answers
70 answers
68 answers
59 answers
50 answers
44 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1K5Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

RAILE TONER PALET PRATE TIARE SLATE

Strategy after playing CHOKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOKY:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONER
9% chance
Suggested:
PALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.0% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
10.4% →
TONER 5.37 bits
8.7% →
PALET 4.69 bits
5.7% →
PRATE 4.72 bits
4.0% →
TIARE 5.29 bits
3.7% →
SLATE 5.42 bits
2.9% →
PAIRE 4.97 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.87 bits
2.5% →
TARSE 5.05 bits
2.1% →
SLADE 3.95 bits

Research on CHOKY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHOKY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,694 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,382 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it CHOHKEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHOKY is a kind of prison.

Synonyms TIGHT

Opposites LOOSE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHOKY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).