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CRENA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A furrow or notch.

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 CRENA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRENA 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #906 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__A R in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT TOILE SLATY SOREE SLATE TORUS
Words starting with C Words ending with A

First-turn measures

5.42 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CRENA 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#906 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRENA ranks #906 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
1,009
4 guesses
1,046
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
31%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

271
174
165
151
139
91
80
72
65
58
57
56
56
53
51
39
38
35
32
30
27
25
25
24
22
18
17
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRENA:

11% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
7% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
MOULT 5.58 bits
7.4% →
TOILE 5.53 bits
7.0% →
SLATY 5.28 bits
6.4% →
SOREE 4.44 bits
5.9% →
SLATE 4.92 bits
3.9% →
TORUS 5.08 bits
3.4% →
SOILY 4.18 bits
3.1% →
TOILE 4.29 bits
2.8% →
PALET 3.83 bits
2.5% →
SOULY 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1N1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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