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CREED

Yes, CREED was the Wordle answer on May 15, 2026 (Wordle #1791).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹiːd//kɹid/

Noun

That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.

Noun

A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.

“A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs”

Verb

To provide with a creed.

Verb

To believe; to credit.

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: May 15, 2026 (#1791).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 15, 2026 (#1791).

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

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How CREED performs as a guess

CREED 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 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,371 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___D C in the 1st position and D in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__D R in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CREED 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CREED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,371 Rank among openers
Opening with CREED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,371 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
202
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
A B A C K
C R E E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CREED in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CREED can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

557 answers
255 answers
179 answers
117 answers
102 answers
97 answers
92 answers
75 answers
72 answers
66 answers
52 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
37 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
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23 answers
19 answers
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18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
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13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLANT ROAST SAINT REAST DAILY CHAIN

Strategy after playing CREED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREED:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.5% →
SLANT 6.08 bits
10.7% →
SLANT 5.53 bits
7.5% →
ROAST 5.17 bits
4.9% →
SAINT 4.94 bits
4.3% →
SAINT 3.79 bits
4.1% →
SAINT 4.77 bits
3.9% →
REAST 4.62 bits
3.2% →
DAILY 4.61 bits
3.0% →
CHAIN 4.50 bits
2.8% →
SAINT 4.37 bits

Research on CREED

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

Optimal play

Opening with CREED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,644 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 CREED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 KREED.

Rhymes with SPEED BREED FREED GREED BLEED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CREED is a kind of philosophy or doctrine.

Synonyms gospel

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CREED sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Shahada is the Muslim creed.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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).