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

CHYLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kaɪl/

Noun

A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.

Noun

Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")

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 CHYLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHYLE 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,867 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__L_ C in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CHYLE 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHYLE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,867 Rank among openers
Opening with CHYLE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,867 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
22
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
34%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

CHYLE can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

387 answers
281 answers
230 answers
177 answers
163 answers
114 answers
72 answers
68 answers
58 answers
54 answers
44 answers
38 answers
38 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4Y4L1E1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TRAIN STAIR ROAST SAUNT SONAR RENAL

Strategy after playing CHYLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHYLE:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
TRAIN 6.26 bits
11.8% →
STAIR 5.16 bits
9.7% →
ROAST 5.15 bits
7.5% →
SAUNT 4.84 bits
6.9% →
SONAR 5.13 bits
4.8% →
RENAL 4.50 bits
3.0% →
STAIR 5.20 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.94 bits
2.4% →
BEAST 3.77 bits
2.3% →
PEART 4.13 bits

Research on CHYLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHYLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,586 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 CHYL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHYLE is a kind of humor.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHYLE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).