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CRAFT

Yes, CRAFT was the Wordle answer on April 29, 2024 (Wordle #1045).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɑːft//ˈkɹäːft//ˈkɹɐ̞ːft/

Noun

Intellectual power; skill; art.

Noun

Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

“The craft of writing plays.”

Verb

To make by hand and with much skill.

Verb

To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

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: April 29, 2024 (#1045).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 29, 2024 (#1045).

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

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How CRAFT performs as a guess

CRAFT 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,082 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__F_ C in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRAFT 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.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRAFT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,082 Rank among openers
Opening with CRAFT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,082 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I S T
C R A F T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRAFT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRAFT can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

440 answers
215 answers
195 answers
129 answers
105 answers
84 answers
84 answers
80 answers
79 answers
67 answers
55 answers
52 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
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27 answers
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19 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1F4T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOLDE LADEN SORER HOISE LAYER SHIEL

Strategy after playing CRAFT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CRAFT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRAFT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE
9% chance
Suggested:
LADEN
8% chance
Suggested:
SORER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
SOLDE 5.93 bits
9.1% →
LADEN 5.25 bits
8.2% →
SORER 5.13 bits
5.4% →
HOISE 5.20 bits
4.4% →
LAYER 4.53 bits
3.5% →
SHIEL 4.95 bits
3.5% →
SLIPE 4.91 bits
3.4% →
NOISE 4.93 bits
3.3% →
SNIDE 4.57 bits
2.8% →
LATTE 4.56 bits

Research on CRAFT

Game-tree analysis and word research for CRAFT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CRAFT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,731 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #509 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it KRAFT.

Rhymes with DRAFT SHAFT GRAFT KRAFT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRAFT is a kind of business or vehicle.

Synonyms TRADE cunning craftsmanship workmanship

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRAFT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 20 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 59 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

In a sentence

This is a nice craft.
© tatoeba.org contributor 6jou (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Every man to his craft.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (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).