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CHUCK

Yes, CHUCK was the Wordle answer on May 23, 2026 (Wordle #1799).

As an opener, it rules out about 72.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌk//t͡ʃʊk/

Noun

Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

Noun

A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.

Verb

To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.

Verb

To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

Alternative forms: chock, 'chuck, chack

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 23, 2026 (#1799).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CHUCK performs as a guess

CHUCK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 49.0% of games, misses completely in 51.0%, and leaves about 660 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,120 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

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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__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _H__K H in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STOLE ROATE SLART TARSE TIARE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

All four describe CHUCK 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.

3.12 Entropy (bits)
660 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
72.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHUCK 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,120 Rank among openers
Opening with CHUCK left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,120 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
630
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
416
6 guesses
36
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
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
49%
Green tile
26%
All gray
51%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B U N C H
C H U C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHUCK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHUCK can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1204 answers
214 answers
132 answers
98 answers
96 answers
80 answers
78 answers
70 answers
40 answers
36 answers
34 answers
29 answers
25 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHUCK:

51% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

51.0% →
RAILE 6.16 bits
9.1% →
STOLE 4.81 bits
5.6% →
ROATE 5.51 bits
4.2% →
SLART 4.98 bits
4.1% →
ROATE 5.10 bits
3.4% →
TARSE 5.12 bits
3.3% →
TIARE 4.96 bits
3.0% →
RAILE 4.92 bits
1.7% →
PLATE 4.03 bits
1.5% →
PAIRE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4U1C3K5
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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