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CREPT

Yes, CREPT was the Wordle answer on May 28, 2022 (Wordle #343).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛpt/

Verb

simple past and past participle of creep

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 28, 2022 (#343).

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How CREPT performs as a guess

CREPT 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #478 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__P_ C in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CREPT 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.

5.15 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CREPT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#478 Rank among openers
Opening with CREPT left 2 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 3.58 average. It ranks #478 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
996
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
148
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
1 vowels
Common:
ERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E N T E R
C R E P T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CREPT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CREPT can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
269 answers
178 answers
127 answers
115 answers
85 answers
83 answers
73 answers
72 answers
63 answers
62 answers
48 answers
41 answers
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39 answers
34 answers
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28 answers
23 answers
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18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1P3T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SALON ANILE AINEE HOARD NASTY ANISE

Strategy after playing CREPT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREPT:

15% chance
Suggested:
SALON
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SALON 5.89 bits
11.3% →
ANILE 5.35 bits
7.5% →
AINEE 4.49 bits
5.3% →
HOARD 5.03 bits
4.8% →
NASTY 5.00 bits
3.6% →
ANISE 4.53 bits
3.5% →
TASTE 4.77 bits
3.1% →
SHALY 4.63 bits
3.0% →
DRAIN 4.60 bits
2.7% →
PLAIN 4.99 bits

Research on CREPT

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

Optimal play

Opening with CREPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #917 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #207 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 KREHPT.

Rhymes with SLEPT SWEPT ADEPT INEPT LEAPT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CREPT is a kind of actor or travel.

Synonyms MOUSE SNEAK CRAWL crawling creeping cringe

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CREPT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.8 of 5).

In a sentence

They crept into the room.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ussis (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom crept out of the room.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).