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CHORD

Yes, CHORD was the Wordle answer on December 17, 2022 (Wordle #546).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɔːd//kɔɹd/

Noun

A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.

Noun

A line segment between two points of a curve.

Verb

To write chords for.

Verb

To accord; to harmonize together.

“This note chords with that one.”

Alternative forms: cord

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Variant of cord, with spelling alteration due to Latin chorda (“cord”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”). No relation to French accord (“chord”) and its derivations. Doublet of cuerda.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KAWRD.

Rhymes with BOARD AWARD SWORD BORED HOARD

In a sentence

I like that chord change.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
That name struck a chord.
© tatoeba.org contributor orcrist (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use CHORD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 17, 2022 (#546).

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CHORD in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How CHORD performs as a guess

CHORD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,123 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___D C in the 1st position and D in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__D H in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position CH_RD C in the 1st position, H in the 2nd position, R in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHORD 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHORD 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,123 Rank among openers
Opening with CHORD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,123 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
29%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A R I S H
C H O R D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHORD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHORD can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

589 answers
293 answers
152 answers
99 answers
91 answers
88 answers
82 answers
78 answers
67 answers
50 answers
48 answers
43 answers
43 answers
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34 answers
24 answers
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22 answers
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18 answers
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14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1R1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE SALET LEANT LAIDE SATEM SLANE

Strategy after playing CHORD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHORD:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
SLATE 6.41 bits
12.3% →
SALET 5.38 bits
6.4% →
LEANT 5.12 bits
4.2% →
LAIDE 5.13 bits
3.8% →
SATEM 4.38 bits
3.7% →
SLANE 5.25 bits
3.4% →
SLATE 4.81 bits
3.3% →
SLATE 5.28 bits
2.8% →
LEAST 5.06 bits
2.1% →
DIANE 4.76 bits

Research on CHORD

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHORD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,110 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CHORD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHORD sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 68 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).