Wordle #1157
Wordle Answer — Saturday, May 23, 2026
The answer was a 5-letter verb/noun
C
H
U
C
K
Definition
CHUCKverb/noun
To throw something casually or carelessly; also a friendly term for a person or a device used to hold a workpiece in a lathe.
She decided to chuck the old magazines into the recycling bin.
Was this a hard one?
CHUCK trips up many Wordle players because of the double C and the CH digraph, which together consume two guesses worth of information in unexpected ways. The uncommon CK ending combined with the rare double-C pattern makes it easy to overlook even when players have identified most of the letters.
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