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CREAM

Yes, CREAM was the Wordle answer on February 22, 2025 (Wordle #1344).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹiːm/

Noun

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

“Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…”

Noun

A yellowish white color; the color of cream.

Adjective

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Verb

To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

“Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.”

Alternative forms: creme, creyme

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: February 22, 2025 (#1344).

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

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How CREAM performs as a guess

CREAM 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,594 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___M C in the 1st position and M in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__M R in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT SEINE SLATE TORUS
Words starting with C Words ending with M

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CREAM 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,594 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CREAM ranks #1,594 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
982
4 guesses
1,084
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
C R E A M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CREAM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

318
225
199
163
136
92
71
68
68
67
60
60
42
40
38
34
33
33
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27
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREAM:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.47 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.46 bits
6.9% →
SEINE 4.56 bits
5.8% →
SLATE 4.98 bits
3.9% →
TORUS 5.04 bits
3.0% →
TARDY 4.07 bits
2.9% →
STEEL 4.80 bits
2.9% →
PRINT 4.02 bits
2.8% →
TOUCH 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1A1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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