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CONCH

Yes, CONCH was the Wordle answer on December 22, 2025 (Wordle #1647).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnt͡ʃ//ˈkɒŋk/

Noun

A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

Noun

The shell of this sea animal.

Verb

To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

Verb

To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

Alternative forms: conk, conque

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: December 22, 2025 (#1647).

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

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How CONCH performs as a guess

CONCH 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 63.7% of games, misses completely in 36.3%, and leaves about 379 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,787 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___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 _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE ARIEL TALER TARSE IRATE LAIDE
Words starting with C Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.88 Entropy (bits)
379 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CONCH 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
0.74 Volatility
#10,787 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CONCH ranks #10,787 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
784
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
34
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:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
31%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
C O N C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CONCH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

857
230
203
151
117
72
72
67
56
51
50
34
31
25
25
19
17
17
17
15
15
13
12
12
11
10
9
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CONCH:

36% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.3% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
9.8% →
ARIEL 5.46 bits
8.6% →
TALER 5.13 bits
6.4% →
TALER 4.63 bits
5.0% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 4.50 bits
3.1% →
IRATE 5.12 bits
2.8% →
LAIDE 4.44 bits
2.4% →
MAIRE 4.88 bits
2.2% →
URITE 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1N1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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