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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,594 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CREAM 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,594 Rank among openers
Opening with CREAM left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It 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 (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
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

CREAM can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

321 answers
229 answers
200 answers
163 answers
137 answers
93 answers
71 answers
69 answers
68 answers
67 answers
61 answers
60 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

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.

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT SEINE SLATE TORUS

Strategy after playing CREAM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREAM:

14% 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
9.6% →
TOILE 5.46 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.46 bits
6.9% →
SEINE 4.56 bits
5.8% →
SLATE 4.97 bits
3.9% →
TORUS 5.03 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

Research on CREAM

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

Optimal play

Opening with CREAM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,404 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 CREAM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 KREEM.

Rhymes with DREAM THEME STEAM CREME GLEAM

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CREAM is a kind of elite or food.

Synonyms pick bat lick skim thrash lam

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CREAM sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 42 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 87 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

We don't have any cream.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can we get some more cream?
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).