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CREST

Yes, CREST was the Wordle answer on April 14, 2025 (Wordle #1395).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɛst/

Noun

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

Noun

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

Verb

Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.

Verb

To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).

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: April 14, 2025 (#1395).

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

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How CREST performs as a guess

CREST is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #306 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.

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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__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DAILY ANILE AINEE LORRY SNAIL TITAN
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.45 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CREST 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#306 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CREST ranks #306 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
1,033
4 guesses
1,073
5 guesses
146
6 guesses
22
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:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
35%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CREST in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

285
234
162
111
107
86
77
64
63
61
55
49
44
44
42
37
36
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31
31
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CREST:

12% chance
Suggested:
DAILY
10% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.1% →
DAILY 5.68 bits
9.9% →
ANILE 5.45 bits
6.9% →
AINEE 4.34 bits
4.7% →
LORRY 5.00 bits
4.5% →
SNAIL 5.03 bits
3.6% →
TITAN 4.98 bits
3.3% →
DRAIN 4.59 bits
2.7% →
LATTE 4.77 bits
2.7% →
ANILE 4.42 bits
2.6% →
ALONE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1E1S1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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