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

CHYME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kaɪm/

Noun

The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

Alternative forms: chymus

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 CHYME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CHYME 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 225 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,654 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.
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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__M_ C in the 1st position and M 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 CHYME.

First-turn measures

All four describe CHYME 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
225 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CHYME 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,654 Rank among openers
Opening with CHYME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,654 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
25
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

CHYME can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

495 answers
356 answers
279 answers
208 answers
79 answers
69 answers
69 answers
65 answers
63 answers
55 answers
42 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3H4Y4M3E1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TRAIL ALTER ROAST SAULT STAIR MINOR

Strategy after playing CHYME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CHYME:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
12% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
TRAIL 6.17 bits
15.0% →
ALTER 5.24 bits
11.8% →
ROAST 5.07 bits
8.8% →
SAULT 4.77 bits
3.3% →
STAIR 5.14 bits
2.9% →
MINOR 4.79 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.97 bits
2.7% →
SORAL 4.76 bits
2.7% →
PEART 4.14 bits
2.3% →
LATER 4.72 bits

Research on CHYME

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

Optimal play

Opening with CHYME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,149 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,583 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 3.75, 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 CHYM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CHYME is a kind of food.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CHYME 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).