5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CHOOM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An Englishman.

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 CHOOM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOOM 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 57.4% of games, misses completely in 42.6%, and leaves about 475 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___M C in the 1st position and M in the 5th position C__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _H__M H in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE RANSE MAILE PRATE TARSE LATER
Words starting with C Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.69 Entropy (bits)
475 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHOOM 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,632 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHOOM ranks #11,632 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
27%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1004
183
131
118
112
103
84
67
57
44
38
30
28
23
22
22
20
19
18
16
16
15
14
11
11
9
8
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOOM:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
6% chance
Suggested:
MAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.6% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
7.8% →
RANSE 5.04 bits
5.6% →
MAILE 5.41 bits
5.0% →
RAILE 5.38 bits
4.7% →
PRATE 4.74 bits
4.4% →
TARSE 5.36 bits
3.6% →
LATER 5.02 bits
2.8% →
TARSE 5.05 bits
2.4% →
TALER 4.50 bits
1.9% →
LIANE 4.03 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1O1M3
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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