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CHOWK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

Noun

A marketplace or open area in a city or village.

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 CHOWK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHOWK 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 58.7% of games, misses completely in 41.3%, and leaves about 466 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,212 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__W_ C in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHOWK 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.

3.65 Entropy (bits)
466 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHOWK 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,212 Rank among openers
Opening with CHOWK solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,212 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
755
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
25%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

CHOWK can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

981 answers
273 answers
138 answers
106 answers
102 answers
84 answers
72 answers
58 answers
50 answers
43 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4O1W4K5
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

RAILE TONER PRATE TARSE IRATE TASER

Strategy after playing CHOWK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHOWK:

41% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
6% chance
Suggested:
PRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.3% →
RAILE 6.25 bits
11.5% →
TONER 5.23 bits
5.8% →
PRATE 4.77 bits
4.5% →
TARSE 5.31 bits
4.3% →
RAILE 5.25 bits
3.5% →
IRATE 5.10 bits
3.0% →
TASER 5.38 bits
2.4% →
RAILE 4.92 bits
2.1% →
TIARE 4.72 bits
1.8% →
LIANE 4.00 bits

Research on CHOWK

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHOWK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,706 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,094 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it CHOWK. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHOWK sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).