5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CHOUX

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of chou

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 CHOUX performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOUX 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 63.2% of games, misses completely in 36.8%, and leaves about 396 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,091 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___X C in the 1st position and X in the 5th position C__U_ C in the 1st position and U in the 4th position

Try next

RAILE TALER SLANE SNARE REAST RAINE
Words starting with C Words ending with X

First-turn measures

3.72 Entropy (bits)
396 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CHOUX 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#13,091 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHOUX ranks #13,091 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
342
6 guesses
41
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
2 vowels
Common:
OU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
24%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

867
257
227
154
101
93
76
67
41
40
36
31
29
28
25
24
22
20
20
16
15
14
13
12
11
8
8
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOUX:

37% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.8% →
RAILE 6.16 bits
10.9% →
TALER 5.29 bits
9.6% →
SLANE 5.13 bits
6.5% →
SNARE 4.70 bits
4.3% →
RAILE 5.08 bits
3.9% →
REAST 5.27 bits
3.2% →
RAINE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
TARSE 5.02 bits
1.7% →
RONTE 4.01 bits
1.7% →
RANSE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1U1X8
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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