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CREDO

Yes, CREDO was the Wordle answer on March 19, 2023 (Wordle #638).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹidəʊ//ˈkɹeɪdəʊ//ˈkɹidoʊ/

Noun

A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.

Noun

The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.

“Credo III is so beautiful!”

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: March 19, 2023 (#638).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 19, 2023 (#638).

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

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How CREDO performs as a guess

CREDO 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #761 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _R__O R in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CREDO 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CREDO 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#761 Rank among openers
Opening with CREDO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #761 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,004
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
14
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R D O R
C R E D O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CREDO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CREDO can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

366 answers
275 answers
184 answers
164 answers
97 answers
82 answers
80 answers
76 answers
71 answers
61 answers
52 answers
48 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1D2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANT SLATE SETAE SAULT SOLVE SAINT

Strategy after playing CREDO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREDO:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
SLANT 6.11 bits
11.6% →
SLATE 5.64 bits
7.8% →
SETAE 4.76 bits
6.9% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
4.1% →
SAULT 5.17 bits
3.5% →
SOLVE 4.39 bits
3.4% →
SAINT 4.80 bits
3.2% →
SAUNT 4.33 bits
3.0% →
SHALT 5.13 bits
2.6% →
SAINT 4.71 bits

Research on CREDO

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

Optimal play

Opening with CREDO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,695 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 CREDO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KRAYDOH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CREDO is a kind of philosophy.

Synonyms CREED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CREDO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).