5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CREDS

CREDS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cred

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CREDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CREDS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,588 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONAL ANILE SAINT PATEE MORAL SLANT
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CREDS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,588 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CREDS ranks #2,588 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
27%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

336
247
202
180
119
107
81
80
78
64
56
55
50
39
38
37
34
31
28
26
24
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20
17
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREDS:

14% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
10% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
TONAL 5.96 bits
10.5% →
ANILE 5.37 bits
8.6% →
SAINT 5.29 bits
7.6% →
PATEE 4.56 bits
5.0% →
MORAL 4.94 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
3.4% →
LATCH 4.42 bits
3.4% →
TRAIN 4.48 bits
3.3% →
DAILY 4.73 bits
2.7% →
ALONE 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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