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CHUNK

Yes, CHUNK was the Wordle answer on April 13, 2022 (Wordle #298).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌŋk/

Noun

A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.

“The statue broke into chunks.”

Noun

A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.

Verb

To break into large pieces or chunks.

Verb

To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

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: April 13, 2022 (#298).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 13, 2022 (#298).

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

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How CHUNK performs as a guess

CHUNK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 62.1% of games, misses completely in 37.9%, and leaves about 398 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,579 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__N_ C in the 1st position and N 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 CHUNK.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHUNK 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.

3.94 Entropy (bits)
398 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHUNK 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,579 Rank among openers
Opening with CHUNK 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,579 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
249
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:
NU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
26%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CHUNK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CHUNK can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

900 answers
224 answers
166 answers
114 answers
88 answers
88 answers
84 answers
70 answers
66 answers
49 answers
40 answers
37 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4U1N1K5
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

RAILE ARIEL LATER ROATE GRATE TIARE

Strategy after playing CHUNK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHUNK:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.9% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
9.4% →
ARIEL 5.46 bits
7.0% →
LATER 4.95 bits
4.8% →
ROATE 5.53 bits
3.7% →
GRATE 4.89 bits
3.7% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
3.5% →
OATER 5.21 bits
2.9% →
SLATE 4.95 bits
2.8% →
STRAE 5.11 bits
2.1% →
PARLE 4.74 bits

Research on CHUNK

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHUNK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,403 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,151 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 CHUHNGK.

Rhymes with DRUNK TRUNK SKUNK SPUNK STUNK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHUNK is a kind of collection or amount.

Synonyms ball lump

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHUNK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 57 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

That boy threw a chunk of stone.
© tatoeba.org contributor sharris123 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I was hit by a huge chunk of meat.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).