5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CRABS

CRABS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹæbz/

Noun

plural of crab

Noun

Pubic lice.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of crab

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CRABS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRABS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,508 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET MATEY TUILE SUITE THALE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.85 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CRABS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,508 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRABS ranks #2,508 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

392
226
220
197
105
95
80
78
71
67
66
65
56
36
35
34
27
26
26
23
22
22
19
19
19
17
15
15
14
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRABS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
9.6% →
TOILE 5.45 bits
9.3% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
8.4% →
ROUET 4.97 bits
4.5% →
MATEY 4.49 bits
4.0% →
TOILE 4.63 bits
3.4% →
TUILE 4.87 bits
3.3% →
SUITE 4.73 bits
3.0% →
TOILE 5.19 bits
2.8% →
THALE 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1B3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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