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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

CARRY

Yes, CARRY was the Wordle answer on October 27, 2022 (Wordle #495).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹi//ˈkɛɹi//ˈkeɹi/

Verb

To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

Verb

To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

“to carry the war from Greece into Asia”

Noun

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

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.

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: October 27, 2022 (#495).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 27, 2022 (#495).

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

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How CARRY performs as a guess

CARRY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CARRY.

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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,767 Rank among openers
Opening with CARRY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #8,767 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
41%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y

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:

532 answers
280 answers
244 answers
177 answers
115 answers
109 answers
99 answers
65 answers
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33 answers
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28 answers
19 answers
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13 answers
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10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1R1R1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE TOISE SIDLE STILE BEAST

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:

22% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
TOILE 6.21 bits
11.8% →
SLATE 5.69 bits
10.3% →
TOISE 5.17 bits
7.5% →
SIDLE 4.57 bits
4.8% →
STILE 4.73 bits
4.6% →
TOILE 5.06 bits
4.2% →
BEAST 4.46 bits
2.7% →
TOUSE 4.92 bits
2.5% →
TOILE 4.72 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 3.71 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAREE.

Rhymes with BARRY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CARRY is a kind of transfer or move.

Synonyms do take run post act hold

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).

In a sentence

I can carry that for you.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can you carry this for me?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).