CHORE
Yes, CHORE was the Wordle answer on February 2, 2025 (Wordle #1324).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔː//t͡ʃoɹ//t͡ʃo(ː)ɹ/
- Noun
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A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as cleaning or preparing meals.
“Before we moved in together, my partner and I divided up the chores: he cooks and vacuums, and I do the dishes and laundry.”
- Noun
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A task that is difficult, unpleasant, or tediously routine.
“I used to enjoy being self-employed, but it's become a bit of a chore recently.”
- Verb
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To do chores.
- Verb
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To steal.
Alternative forms: chor
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ċerr, ċierr (“a turn”), from ċierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it CHAWR.
Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SCORE SHORE CORPS
Related meanings
Synonyms job task
In a sentence
This can be a real chore.
Walking to work is a chore.
Use CHORE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: February 2, 2025 (#1324).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1039
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CHORE appeared in TEDIOUS UNDERTAKING (green group).
How CHORE performs as a guess
CHORE 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,043 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CHORE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CHORE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CHORE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CHORE can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CHORE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CHORE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CHORE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CHORE:
Research on CHORE
Game-tree analysis and word research for CHORE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CHORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,160 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 CHORE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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
- CHORE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.3 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).