Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

CRITH

CRITH is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɪθ/

Noun

the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use CRITH in a puzzle

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

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CRITH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRITH as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe CRITH 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRITH 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
#635 Rank among openers
Opening with CRITH 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 #635 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
1,057
4 guesses
1,063
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
34%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

CRITH can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

477 answers
249 answers
170 answers
138 answers
99 answers
89 answers
76 answers
66 answers
64 answers
61 answers
55 answers
49 answers
49 answers
37 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1I1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing CRITH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRITH:

20% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
10% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
7% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
ALOSE 6.07 bits
10.4% →
LAREE 5.02 bits
7.1% →
SALET 5.62 bits
5.8% →
SIDLE 5.12 bits
4.2% →
DIANE 4.81 bits
3.7% →
SLANE 5.38 bits
3.2% →
SATEM 4.74 bits
2.8% →
SLANE 5.13 bits
2.7% →
SPALE 5.10 bits
2.6% →
RISEN 4.41 bits

Research on CRITH

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRITH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,773 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CRITH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).