5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CHOMP

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tʃɒmp//t͡ʃɑmp/

Noun

The act of chomping (see below)

Verb

To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

“The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.”

Verb

To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Noun

A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.

“An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.”

Alternative forms: chump

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 CHOMP performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOMP 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 64.8% of games, misses completely in 35.2%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,038 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__P H in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE RONTE RAISE TRADE TALER SLATE
Words starting with C Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHOMP 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,038 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHOMP ranks #7,038 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
873
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
10
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:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
24%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

830
225
160
121
99
96
89
76
62
54
38
33
28
28
26
26
26
26
18
16
16
15
15
14
14
14
12
12
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOMP:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.2% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
9.5% →
RONTE 5.25 bits
6.8% →
RAISE 5.64 bits
5.1% →
TRADE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
RAILE 5.34 bits
4.1% →
TALER 5.27 bits
3.8% →
SLATE 5.38 bits
3.2% →
LIANE 4.92 bits
2.6% →
TARSE 5.05 bits
2.3% →
LATER 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1M3P3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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