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CRIME

Yes, CRIME was the Wordle answer on June 14, 2023 (Wordle #725).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹaɪm/

Noun

A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

“the commission of a crime”

Noun

Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.

“Those methods of saving money should be a crime.”

Verb

To subject to disciplinary punishment.

Verb

To commit crime.

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: June 14, 2023 (#725).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 14, 2023 (#725).

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

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How CRIME performs as a guess

CRIME 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #61 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRIME 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.

5.22 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRIME 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#61 Rank among openers
Opening with CRIME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #61 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
1,068
4 guesses
1,062
5 guesses
133
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
40%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
C R I M E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRIME in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRIME can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

349 answers
200 answers
155 answers
152 answers
134 answers
132 answers
80 answers
76 answers
66 answers
53 answers
50 answers
46 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1I1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLANT LEAST ROAST SONLY TONAL

Strategy after playing CRIME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRIME:

15% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SAULT 6.00 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.54 bits
6.5% →
LEAST 4.39 bits
6.4% →
SAULT 5.38 bits
5.6% →
ROAST 5.08 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 5.07 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 5.09 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.43 bits
2.8% →
SAULT 4.87 bits
2.2% →
SONLY 4.76 bits

Research on CRIME

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRIME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #774 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #697 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, 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 KRYM.

Rhymes with PRIME CLIMB RHYME SLIME CHIME

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRIME is a kind of offense or misconduct.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRIME sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 78 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

It's a crime to do that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Is it a crime to do that?
© 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).