5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

CRASH

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

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

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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.

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 CRASH performs as a guess

CRASH 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,020 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.

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

Try next

TOILE ROUET TUILE BOITE TALER BLITE
Words starting with C Words ending with H

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,020 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRASH 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
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
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

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

396
241
186
154
112
110
64
58
53
52
49
43
40
39
34
34
29
28
28
26
25
25
25
24
24
19
17
17
15
15

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.

16.8% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.29 bits
7.9% →
ROUET 4.97 bits
6.5% →
TUILE 5.37 bits
4.7% →
BOITE 4.61 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.61 bits
2.7% →
BLITE 4.41 bits
2.5% →
SUITE 4.50 bits
2.2% →
STILE 4.53 bits
2.2% →
TOILE 5.12 bits

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.