5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

CRAWL

Yes, CRAWL was the Wordle answer on January 10, 2025 (Wordle #1301).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɔːl//kɹoːl//kɹaːl/

Verb

To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.

“Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.”

Verb

To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops.

“The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.”

Noun

The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.

Noun

The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).

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: January 10, 2025 (#1301).

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

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How CRAWL performs as a guess

CRAWL 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,481 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___L C in the 1st position and L in the 5th position C__W_ C in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SOREE SIENT SPITE PARER SALLE
Words starting with C Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.85 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CRAWL 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,481 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRAWL ranks #3,481 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
10
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:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRAWL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

422
238
185
183
106
104
90
89
74
52
46
45
39
38
36
32
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
17
16
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRAWL:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOREE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
TOISE 6.10 bits
10.1% →
SOREE 5.22 bits
7.8% →
TOISE 5.27 bits
7.8% →
SIENT 5.22 bits
4.5% →
SPITE 4.80 bits
4.4% →
PARER 4.49 bits
3.8% →
TOISE 5.16 bits
3.8% →
SALLE 4.53 bits
3.1% →
SHITE 4.86 bits
2.2% →
STONE 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1W4L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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