5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CHONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Chon

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 CHONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHONS 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 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 219 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,775 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE SPATE TALER ARIEL BLARE TIARE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
219 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHONS 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
#1,775 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHONS ranks #1,775 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,125
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
17
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:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

595
244
179
148
89
78
75
71
65
63
41
40
38
37
37
34
31
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHONS:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SPATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
RAILE 6.28 bits
10.3% →
SPATE 5.72 bits
7.6% →
TALER 5.32 bits
6.3% →
ARIEL 5.42 bits
3.8% →
BLARE 4.69 bits
3.3% →
TIARE 4.95 bits
3.2% →
RAILE 5.21 bits
3.0% →
IRATE 5.08 bits
2.8% →
PARTE 5.20 bits
2.7% →
TALER 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1N1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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