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CINCH

Yes, CINCH was the Wordle answer on July 26, 2022 (Wordle #402).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɪntʃ/

Noun

A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

Noun

Something that is very easy to do.

Verb

To bring to certain conclusion.

Verb

To tighten down.

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: July 26, 2022 (#402).

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

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How CINCH performs as a guess

CINCH 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 62.7% of games, misses completely in 37.3%, and leaves about 395 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,001 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___H C in the 1st position and H in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TARSE STARE SOLED GRATE ORATE
Words starting with C Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
395 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CINCH 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,001 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CINCH ranks #11,001 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
33
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
28%
All gray
37%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CINCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

879
218
215
117
114
109
91
61
58
58
39
35
27
23
22
20
18
18
15
15
12
12
11
9
9
8
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CINCH:

37% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.3% →
ROATE 6.09 bits
9.2% →
TARSE 5.47 bits
9.1% →
ROATE 5.31 bits
5.0% →
STARE 5.60 bits
4.8% →
SOLED 4.66 bits
4.6% →
GRATE 4.64 bits
3.9% →
ORATE 5.26 bits
2.6% →
SAYER 4.63 bits
2.5% →
SAUTE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
SERAL 5.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3I1N1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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