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CRAZE

Yes, CRAZE was the Wordle answer on December 22, 2021 (Wordle #186).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹeɪz/

Noun

A strong habitual desire or fancy.

Noun

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.

Verb

To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

Verb

To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

Alternative forms: crase, craise, craize

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: December 22, 2021 (#186).

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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 CRAZE performs as a guess

CRAZE 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,253 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__Z_ C in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRAZE 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRAZE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,253 Rank among openers
Opening with CRAZE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,253 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
26
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)
84%
Green tile
40%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C R I S P
A N V I L
C R A Z E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRAZE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRAZE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

379 answers
202 answers
197 answers
154 answers
137 answers
109 answers
78 answers
75 answers
75 answers
74 answers
71 answers
57 answers
55 answers
46 answers
46 answers
41 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1A1Z10E1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

SOILY TALON INTEL SEITY TORUS SLANT

Strategy after playing CRAZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRAZE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
INTEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SOILY 5.71 bits
8.5% →
TALON 5.27 bits
8.3% →
INTEL 5.15 bits
6.5% →
SEITY 3.99 bits
5.8% →
SOILY 4.74 bits
4.6% →
TORUS 5.09 bits
3.3% →
SOILY 4.11 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
3.2% →
TOUCH 4.59 bits
3.1% →
PRINT 3.96 bits

Research on CRAZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,935 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 CRAZE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 KRAYZ.

Rhymes with PLAYS RAISE PHASE STAYS BLAZE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRAZE is a kind of fashion or mania.

Synonyms rage cult fury madden frenzy hysteria

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRAZE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

She follows the latest craze.
© tatoeba.org contributor weihaiping (CC BY 2.0 FR)
That craze is losing steam.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).