Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier for first-turn info

CRAME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall

Noun

A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit

Verb

Archaic spelling of cram.

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 CRAME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRAME 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #905 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe CRAME 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRAME 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#905 Rank among openers
Opening with CRAME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #905 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
93
3 guesses
975
4 guesses
1,085
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

CRAME can come back 130 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

321 answers
176 answers
176 answers
136 answers
122 answers
93 answers
68 answers
68 answers
67 answers
64 answers
62 answers
50 answers
50 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing CRAME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRAME:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
7% chance
Suggested:
INLET
7% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5%
SOILY 5.64 bits
7.4%
INLET 5.12 bits
7.4%
TALON 5.33 bits
5.7%
SEITY 3.98 bits
5.1%
SOILY 4.69 bits
3.9%
TORUS 5.03 bits
2.9%
RATIO 4.23 bits
2.9%
PRINT 4.02 bits
2.8%
TOUCH 4.65 bits
2.7%
SLANT 4.87 bits

Research on CRAME

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRAME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #501 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CRAME can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 KRAYM. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRAME sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).