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CRASH

Yes, CRASH was the Wordle answer on August 13, 2026 (Wordle #1881).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæʃ/[ˈkʰɹʷæʃ]

Noun

A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

“The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.”

Noun

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

“She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.”

Adjective

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

“crash course”

Verb

To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.

“When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KRASH.

Rhymes with FLASH TRASH SMASH CLASH SLASH

Related meanings

Synonyms ram collapse SMASH dash CLASH WRECK

In a sentence

I need a place to crash.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can I crash at your place?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use CRASH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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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: August 13, 2026 (#1881).

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CRASH in Connections

5 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How CRASH performs as a guess

CRASH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,020 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___H C in the 1st position and H in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__H R in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position CR_SH C in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRASH 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.

5.09 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRASH 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
#1,020 Rank among openers
Opening with CRASH 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 #1,020 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
1,043
4 guesses
1,067
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
35%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
B R A S H
C R A S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRASH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRASH can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

405 answers
242 answers
189 answers
155 answers
112 answers
111 answers
64 answers
60 answers
53 answers
52 answers
49 answers
44 answers
40 answers
40 answers
34 answers
34 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE ROUET TUILE BOITE RATEL BLITE

Strategy after playing CRASH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRASH:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.29 bits
7.9% →
ROUET 5.00 bits
6.5% →
TUILE 5.36 bits
4.7% →
BOITE 4.61 bits
4.7% →
RATEL 4.55 bits
2.7% →
BLITE 4.41 bits
2.5% →
SUITE 4.52 bits
2.2% →
STILE 4.53 bits
2.2% →
TOILE 5.12 bits

Research on CRASH

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,813 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 CRASH can 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRASH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 35 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 80 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

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).