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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

CHUGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌɡz/

Noun

plural of chug

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of chug

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 CHUGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHUGS 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 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,230 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__G_ C in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHUGS 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHUGS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,230 Rank among openers
Opening with CHUGS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,230 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
16
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:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
23%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

CHUGS can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

785 answers
316 answers
135 answers
133 answers
105 answers
97 answers
85 answers
58 answers
51 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4U1G2S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

ARIEL TIARE ALONE LATER MORAE ROATE

Strategy after playing CHUGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHUGS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
13% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ALONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
ARIEL 6.20 bits
13.3% →
TIARE 5.74 bits
5.7% →
ALONE 5.54 bits
5.6% →
LATER 4.94 bits
4.4% →
MORAE 5.20 bits
4.1% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
3.6% →
ROATE 5.34 bits
2.4% →
TRONE 4.70 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.26 bits
2.0% →
POTAE 4.31 bits

Research on CHUGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHUGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,549 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,992 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 CHUHGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHUGS is a kind of noise or go.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHUGS 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).