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

CRAMP

Yes, CRAMP was the Wordle answer on July 31, 2022 (Wordle #407).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹæmp/

Noun

A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

“He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.”

Noun

That which confines or contracts.

Verb

(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.

Verb

To affect with cramps or spasms.

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: July 31, 2022 (#407).

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

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How CRAMP performs as a guess

CRAMP 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 78.4% of games, misses completely in 21.6%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRAMP 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRAMP 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#820 Rank among openers
Opening with CRAMP left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
144
6 guesses
8
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:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
30%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
P A N S Y
C R A M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRAMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRAMP can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

513 answers
242 answers
240 answers
106 answers
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95 answers
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70 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1M3P3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TOILE SALET TOISE STILE TALER BOITE

Strategy after playing CRAMP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRAMP:

22% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SALET
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.6% →
TOILE 6.12 bits
10.2% →
SALET 5.50 bits
10.1% →
TOISE 5.29 bits
4.5% →
STILE 5.27 bits
4.4% →
TALER 4.76 bits
4.0% →
BOITE 4.70 bits
3.8% →
SUITE 5.37 bits
3.8% →
TOILE 5.16 bits
2.9% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
2.3% →
TOILE 4.73 bits

Research on CRAMP

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRAMP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,491 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #347 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 KRAMP.

Rhymes with STAMP CHAMP CLAMP TRAMP

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRAMP is a kind of symptom or clamp.

Synonyms hamper strangle

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRAMP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

I have a cramp in my leg.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He had a cramp in his leg.
© tatoeba.org contributor CH (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).