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CROCK

Yes, CROCK was the Wordle answer on April 30, 2026 (Wordle #1776).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɒk//kɹɑk//kɹɔk/

Noun

A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

Noun

A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

Verb

To break something or injure someone.

Verb

To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.

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 30, 2026 (#1776).

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

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How CROCK performs as a guess

CROCK 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 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 349 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,263 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___K C in the 1st position and K in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET LEANT DIANE TARRE LIANE
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
349 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CROCK 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,263 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CROCK ranks #11,263 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
32%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
P L U C K
C R O C K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CROCK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

779
324
216
129
122
109
66
56
51
50
48
30
29
27
23
22
22
21
20
12
12
12
12
10
9
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8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CROCK:

33% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
SLATE 6.37 bits
13.7% →
SALET 5.38 bits
9.2% →
LEANT 4.98 bits
5.5% →
DIANE 5.05 bits
5.2% →
TARRE 4.53 bits
4.6% →
SLATE 4.89 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.62 bits
2.4% →
PLANE 4.77 bits
2.2% →
ANILE 4.91 bits
2.1% →
PLANE 3.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1O1C3K5
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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