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CHUNK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.2% 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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 62.0% of games, misses completely in 38.0%, and leaves about 396 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,579 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___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

Try next

RAILE ARIEL LATER ROATE GRATE TIARE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
396 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,579 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CHUNK 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 (3.45 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

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

896
220
166
113
88
87
84
69
65
49
40
37
26
26
23
22
20
20
18
16
16
14
14
13
13
12
11
10
10
8

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.

38.0% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
9.3% →
ARIEL 5.45 bits
7.0% →
LATER 4.95 bits
4.8% →
ROATE 5.50 bits
3.7% →
GRATE 4.89 bits
3.7% →
TIARE 5.39 bits
3.6% →
ORATE 5.06 bits
2.9% →
SLATE 4.95 bits
2.8% →
TARSE 5.14 bits
2.1% →
PARLE 4.74 bits

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.