CARRY
Yes, CARRY was the Wordle answer on October 27, 2022 (Wordle #495).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi//ˈkɛɹi//ˈkeɹi/
- Verb
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To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- Verb
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To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
“to carry the war from Greece into Asia”
- Noun
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A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
“Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don’t tire too quickly.”
- Noun
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A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin. Compare also Middle English cairen (“to go, bring carry”), whence Modern English cair, with which it was confused.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAREE.
Rhymes with BARRY
Related meanings
Synonyms do take run post act hold
In a sentence
I can carry that for you.
Can you carry this for me?
Use CARRY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 27, 2022 (#495).
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See what the public sample says →CARRY in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1133
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CARRY appeared in COMMIT A BASKETBALL VIOLATION (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #1061
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CARRY appeared in COMMIT A BASKETBALL INFRACTION (blue group).
How CARRY performs as a guess
CARRY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,767 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CARRY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CARRY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CARRY in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CARRY can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CARRY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CARRY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CARRY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CARRY:
Research on CARRY
Game-tree analysis and word research for CARRY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CARRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,403 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,188 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CARRY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 78 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 62 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.0 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).