5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CRIMP

Yes, CRIMP was the Wordle answer on January 23, 2022 (Wordle #218).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/

Noun

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

“The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.”

Noun

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

Verb

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

“Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.”

Verb

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

“He crimped the wire in place.”

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: January 23, 2022 (#218).

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

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How CRIMP performs as a guess

CRIMP 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,496 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE ROATE TILDE SLANE ATONE THALE
Words starting with C Words ending with P

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CRIMP 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,496 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CRIMP ranks #1,496 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
160
6 guesses
9
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:
IR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
29%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
C H I R P
C R I M P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRIMP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

581
289
152
119
108
102
98
85
72
67
46
43
35
34
29
29
28
27
27
24
21
21
17
17
16
14
14
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRIMP:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
SLATE 6.40 bits
12.3% →
ROATE 5.29 bits
6.4% →
TILDE 5.13 bits
5.0% →
SLANE 5.18 bits
4.6% →
ATONE 4.88 bits
4.3% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
4.2% →
THALE 5.20 bits
3.6% →
MOTEL 5.23 bits
3.1% →
HAOLE 5.06 bits
2.8% →
RIDER 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1I1M3P3
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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