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CREMS

CREMS is an accepted guess. Its modelled answer likelihood is very unlikely; no globally completed appearance is recorded here.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of crem

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

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As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Wordle status

Answer chance: very unlikely. Roughly 0.05% within a year (about 1 in 2,113), under the model through 2026-11-05. This is an estimate, not a publisher forecast. How this is calculated.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Earlier benchmark pool

No

Membership in the preserved uniform benchmark; it is not a future eligibility rule.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CREMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CREMS as a guess. It is outside this preserved uniform benchmark’s answer pool; that is not a claim about future eligibility.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,945 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CR_MS C in the 1st position, R in the 2nd position, M in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CREMS 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CREMS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,945 Rank among openers
Opening with CREMS left 2 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,945 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
888
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
26%
All gray
15%

When CREMS is useful later

CREMS tied for the smallest expected survivor count in 3 of 55 sampled positions where it was legal. This designed sample is not a measure of how often real players should use it.

After ADIEU: 4 candidates, normal mode

ADIEU: 02000 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: ODDLY, ODOOM, ODORS, ODYLS.

With a budget of 5 more guesses, CREMS is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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After AUDIO: 3 candidates, normal mode

AUDIO: 11200 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: LADDU, SADHU, UNDAM.

With a budget of 5 more guesses, CREMS is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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After ROATE: 3 candidates, normal mode

ROATE: 10101 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

AWNER: 10011 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

ZEBRA: 01012 (0 = grey, 1 = yellow, 2 = green).

Remaining answers: CREMA, ERICA, PRESA.

With a budget of 3 more guesses, CREMS is an information probe, outside this survivor list. It leaves 1.00 candidates on average under the model. Every feedback identifies a single candidate; another turn may be needed to submit it.

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Sample and method

Every saved board is reachable within a six-turn game. Remaining turns equal six minus the saved history length. The sampling policy is independent of the expected-survivor metric. Two states at each of three depths per opener were selected by a fixed hash from an independent candidate-only sampling policy. Every accepted guess was evaluated. Model answer-model-2026-11-05-9183a914c959, data through 2026-11-05. The score measures expected survivors, not proved solve length or human difficulty.

How this is calculated.

How the solver finds CREMS

The strategy receives only earlier guesses and their feedback. It does not know the answer before choosing a move. Guessing the answer itself on turn one is a lucky one-turn result, not a recommended general strategy.

Normal mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 219 after. This feedback leaves 219 candidates.

    All 219 surviving candidates

    BEERS, BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREES, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREWS, BREYS, BRIES, CREDS, CREES, CREMS, CREPS, CREWS, CRIES, CRUES, DEERS, DOERS, DOSER, DREES, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DRIES, DYERS, EGERS, EMIRS, EREVS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERNES, ERSES, ERUVS, ESKER, EWERS, EYERS, FEERS, FIERS, FREES, FRIES, FROES, GOERS, GREES, GRENS, GREPS, GREWS, GREYS, GRUES, HEIRS, HOERS, HOSER, HUERS, ICERS, JEERS, KEIRS, KIERS, LEERS, LEHRS, LEIRS, LIERS, LOSER, LUSER, MEERS, MISER, MOERS, MUSER, NOSER, OMERS, ONERS, ORFES, ORLES, OSIER, OVERS, OWERS, OXERS, OYERS, PEERS, PIERS, POSER, PREES, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PRIES, PUERS, REBUS, RECKS, REDDS, REDES, REDOS, REEDS, REEFS, REEKS, REELS, REEMS, REENS, REFIS, REGES, REGOS, REIFS, REIKS, REINS, REKES, RELOS, RENDS, RENGS, RENKS, RENOS, REPOS, REPPS, RESES, RESEW, RESID, RESIN, RESOD, RESOL, RESOW, RESUS, REUPS, REXES, REZES, RHIES, RIBES, RICES, RIDES, RIELS, RIEMS, RILES, RIMES, RINES, RIPES, RISEN, RISER, RISES, RIVES, ROBES, RODES, ROERS, ROHES, ROKES, ROLES, RONES, ROPES, ROSED, ROSES, ROUES, ROVES, ROZES, RUBES, RUDES, RUERS, RULES, RUMES, RUNES, RUSES, RYKES, SEDER, SEERS, SEFER, SEHRI, SEIRS, SENOR, SEVER, SEVIR, SEWER, SEXER, SEXOR, SHEER, SHERD, SHERO, SHIER, SHOER, SHYER, SIDER, SIEUR, SIKER, SILER, SIVER, SIXER, SIZER, SKEER, SKERM, SKERS, SKIER, SKYER, SLEER, SLIER, SLYER, SMERK, SNEER, SOBER, SOGER, SOLER, SOWER, SPEER, SPEIR, SPERM, SPIER, SPUER, SUBER, SUERS, SUPER, SWEER, SWEIR, SWERF, SYKER, SYVER, URGES, USERS, USHER, VEERS, VIERS, WEIRS, WISER, WRENS, WRIES

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test SEWER against the 219 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    219 before → 47 after. This feedback leaves 47 candidates.

    All 47 surviving candidates

    BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREYS, CREDS, CREMS, CREPS, DOERS, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DYERS, EMIRS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERUVS, FIERS, GOERS, GRENS, GREPS, GREYS, HOERS, HUERS, ICERS, KIERS, LIERS, MOERS, OMERS, ONERS, OVERS, OXERS, OYERS, PIERS, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PUERS, RIELS, RIEMS, ROERS, RUERS, USERS, VIERS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 6.476. Information: 2.61 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Test DOERS against the 47 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    47 before → 13 after. This feedback leaves 13 candidates.

    All 13 surviving candidates

    BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS, CREPS, GRENS, GREPS, GREYS, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, RIELS, RIEMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 8.277. Information: 2.877 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  4. Test GREPS against the 13 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    13 before → 4 after. This feedback leaves 4 candidates.

    All 4 surviving candidates

    BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.538. Information: 2.47 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  5. Test BREIS against the 4 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    4 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.5. Information: 1.5 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  6. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 6 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 5.

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Hard Mode

Our solver: bounded weighted policy. Current-pool replay over 14,855 accepted words. Model through 2026-11-05.

  1. The fixed opener tests its five letters.

    14,855 before → 219 after. This feedback leaves 219 candidates.

    All 219 surviving candidates

    BEERS, BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREES, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREWS, BREYS, BRIES, CREDS, CREES, CREMS, CREPS, CREWS, CRIES, CRUES, DEERS, DOERS, DOSER, DREES, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DRIES, DYERS, EGERS, EMIRS, EREVS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERNES, ERSES, ERUVS, ESKER, EWERS, EYERS, FEERS, FIERS, FREES, FRIES, FROES, GOERS, GREES, GRENS, GREPS, GREWS, GREYS, GRUES, HEIRS, HOERS, HOSER, HUERS, ICERS, JEERS, KEIRS, KIERS, LEERS, LEHRS, LEIRS, LIERS, LOSER, LUSER, MEERS, MISER, MOERS, MUSER, NOSER, OMERS, ONERS, ORFES, ORLES, OSIER, OVERS, OWERS, OXERS, OYERS, PEERS, PIERS, POSER, PREES, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PRIES, PUERS, REBUS, RECKS, REDDS, REDES, REDOS, REEDS, REEFS, REEKS, REELS, REEMS, REENS, REFIS, REGES, REGOS, REIFS, REIKS, REINS, REKES, RELOS, RENDS, RENGS, RENKS, RENOS, REPOS, REPPS, RESES, RESEW, RESID, RESIN, RESOD, RESOL, RESOW, RESUS, REUPS, REXES, REZES, RHIES, RIBES, RICES, RIDES, RIELS, RIEMS, RILES, RIMES, RINES, RIPES, RISEN, RISER, RISES, RIVES, ROBES, RODES, ROERS, ROHES, ROKES, ROLES, RONES, ROPES, ROSED, ROSES, ROUES, ROVES, ROZES, RUBES, RUDES, RUERS, RULES, RUMES, RUNES, RUSES, RYKES, SEDER, SEERS, SEFER, SEHRI, SEIRS, SENOR, SEVER, SEVIR, SEWER, SEXER, SEXOR, SHEER, SHERD, SHERO, SHIER, SHOER, SHYER, SIDER, SIEUR, SIKER, SILER, SIVER, SIXER, SIZER, SKEER, SKERM, SKERS, SKIER, SKYER, SLEER, SLIER, SLYER, SMERK, SNEER, SOBER, SOGER, SOLER, SOWER, SPEER, SPEIR, SPERM, SPIER, SPUER, SUBER, SUERS, SUPER, SWEER, SWEIR, SWERF, SYKER, SYVER, URGES, USERS, USHER, VEERS, VIERS, WEIRS, WISER, WRENS, WRIES

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 414.45. Information: 5.74 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  2. Test SEWER against the 219 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    219 before → 47 after. This feedback leaves 47 candidates.

    All 47 surviving candidates

    BIERS, BOERS, BREDS, BREIS, BRENS, BRERS, BREYS, CREDS, CREMS, CREPS, DOERS, DREGS, DREKS, DREYS, DYERS, EMIRS, ERGOS, ERHUS, ERICS, ERUVS, FIERS, GOERS, GRENS, GREPS, GREYS, HOERS, HUERS, ICERS, KIERS, LIERS, MOERS, OMERS, ONERS, OVERS, OXERS, OYERS, PIERS, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, PUERS, RIELS, RIEMS, ROERS, RUERS, USERS, VIERS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 6.476. Information: 2.61 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  3. Test DOERS against the 47 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    47 before → 13 after. This feedback leaves 13 candidates.

    All 13 surviving candidates

    BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS, CREPS, GRENS, GREPS, GREYS, PREMS, PREPS, PREYS, RIELS, RIEMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 8.277. Information: 2.877 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  4. Test GREPS against the 13 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    13 before → 4 after. This feedback leaves 4 candidates.

    All 4 surviving candidates

    BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 2.538. Information: 2.47 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  5. Test BREIS against the 4 candidates consistent with the earlier rows.

    4 before → 1 after. This feedback leaves 1 candidate.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.5. Information: 1.5 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

  6. Submit the only remaining candidate.

    1 before → 1 after. The answer is submitted and solved.

    All 1 surviving candidates

    CREMS

    Decision measures before feedback

    Expected remaining candidates: 1.0. Information: 0.0 bits. These measures describe the decision before its realised feedback.

Solved in 6 guesses. Uniquely identified on turn 5.

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How the fixed opener panel performs on this answer

OpenerFirst feedbackSurvivorsNormalHard Mode
TARSE00111 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)21966
CRANE22001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)2155
SLATE10001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)73755
ADIEU00010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)128254
STARE10011 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)22744
AUDIO00000 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)125166
RAISE10011 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)24865
ROATE10001 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)50866
SALET10010 (0 grey, 1 yellow, 2 green)45166
Normal mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 0 · 4 guesses: 1 · 5 guesses: 3 · 6 guesses: 5 · Failed in six: 0
Hard Mode
1 guess: 0 · 2 guesses: 0 · 3 guesses: 0 · 4 guesses: 2 · 5 guesses: 3 · 6 guesses: 4 · Failed in six: 0

The nine openers use the same pool and continuation policy. Across both modes: 4–6 guesses among successes; 0 of 18 configurations failed. This is performance on this answer, not an overall opener ranking.

11 openers set up a two-turn opportunity; examples include SCRIM, SCRAM, MERCS, CRAMS, CRIMS, CHEMS, PREMS, MARCS, CRAME, CLEMS. After their feedback, this answer is among the most likely survivors with at least half the model probability. This is an opportunity, not a guarantee. An opener that immediately solves is excluded.

Why this answer can be difficult

The worked board still allows 4 different answers at one later decision: BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS. These are mechanical alternatives, not a judgement of vocabulary difficulty.

Vocabulary evidence and voluntary player results are reported separately from these solver observations.

Closest competing answers in this board

These words all fit the earlier feedback, rather than merely sharing similar spelling: BREIS, BRENS, BREYS, CREMS.

A lesson from this route

Before BREIS, 4 words still fit. Its feedback left 1; check the full survivor list before choosing the next answer.

Try another opener or a different move

How this is calculated

The current policy checks all remaining candidates and up to 128 fixed probes. At six or fewer candidates it uses bounded lookahead, preferring modelled six-turn success, then speed among successes. Larger states use expected survivors as a heuristic. These are recommendations, not proofs of optimal play. Hard Mode retains green positions and revealed letter counts; it allows grey letters and a yellow in the same position. Candidate-only play is stricter.

Methods and limitations

Feedback distribution

CREMS can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
274 answers
197 answers
183 answers
128 answers
106 answers
99 answers
75 answers
63 answers
62 answers
54 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
40 answers
32 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

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TALON ANILE SAINT RATEL TARDY SLANT

Strategy after playing CREMS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREMS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
TALON 5.92 bits
11.5% →
ANILE 5.36 bits
8.2% →
SAINT 5.35 bits
7.7% →
RATEL 4.36 bits
5.4% →
TARDY 4.98 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 4.83 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 4.52 bits
3.1% →
TOUCH 4.39 bits
2.6% →
MODAL 4.58 bits
2.6% →
ALONE 4.34 bits

Research on CREMS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CREMS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,123 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,251 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).