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CRISP

Yes, CRISP was the Wordle answer on January 25, 2025 (Wordle #1316).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɪsp//kɾɪsp//kɹəsp/

Adjective

Senses relating to brittleness.

“The crisp snow crunched underfoot.”

Noun

Senses relating to something brittle.

Verb

Senses relating to brittleness.

“to crisp bacon by frying it”

Adjective

Senses relating to curliness.

“crisp hair”

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 25, 2025 (#1316).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 25, 2025 (#1316).

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

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How CRISP performs as a guess

CRISP 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #738 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___P C in the 1st position and P in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _R__P R in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRISP 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRISP 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#738 Rank among openers
Opening with CRISP 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 3.59 average. It ranks #738 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
1,030
4 guesses
1,087
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
13
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:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CRISP in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CRISP can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

463 answers
263 answers
162 answers
148 answers
97 answers
84 answers
82 answers
73 answers
69 answers
66 answers
62 answers
60 answers
35 answers
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26 answers
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22 answers
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14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1I1S1P3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ANOLE TERRA STANE TILDE ATONE LEANT

Strategy after playing CRISP

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRISP:

20% chance
Suggested:
ANOLE
11% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
7% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
ANOLE 6.00 bits
11.1% →
TERRA 5.37 bits
6.8% →
STANE 5.45 bits
6.2% →
TILDE 5.28 bits
4.1% →
ATONE 4.85 bits
3.5% →
LEANT 5.01 bits
3.5% →
LEANT 5.12 bits
3.1% →
PLATE 5.11 bits
2.9% →
AHOLE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
ALONE 5.10 bits

Research on CRISP

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRISP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #376 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, 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 KRIHSP.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRISP is a kind of dish or fold.

Synonyms SHARP chip TOAST crispy KINKY crease

Opposites hot straight TOUGH STALE

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRISP sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 76 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.1 of 5).

In a sentence

The morning air is crisp.
© tatoeba.org contributor felidad (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The air was crisp and cool.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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).