5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

CRACK

CRACK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹæk/

Verb

To form cracks.

“It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.”

Verb

To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.

“When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.”

Noun

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

“A large crack had formed in the roadway.”

Noun

A narrow opening.

“We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.”

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

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 CRACK performs as a guess

CRACK 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 71.8% of games, misses completely in 28.2%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,541 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SALET SOREE TALER STILE SPITE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CRACK 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,541 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRACK ranks #11,541 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
25
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:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
33%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
M U L C H
C R A C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRACK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

664
317
294
139
123
122
57
43
43
42
40
39
30
26
26
25
20
17
17
17
16
14
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14
11
11
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9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRACK:

28% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
12% chance
Suggested:
SOREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.2% →
TOILE 6.14 bits
13.4% →
SALET 5.40 bits
12.5% →
SOREE 5.11 bits
5.9% →
TALER 4.68 bits
5.2% →
STILE 5.37 bits
5.2% →
SPITE 4.71 bits
2.4% →
TUILE 4.45 bits
1.8% →
SIENT 3.74 bits
1.8% →
TOILE 4.61 bits
1.8% →
TOILE 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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