5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CROFT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɒft//kɹɔft//kɹɑft/

Noun

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

Verb

To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.

Verb

To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

Noun

An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.

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

No

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

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How CROFT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CROFT 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 78.4% of games, misses completely in 21.6%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,379 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.

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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__F_ C in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

AISLE SAYEE TASTE LAIDE SLANE LIANE
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.83 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CROFT 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
0.68 Volatility
#1,379 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CROFT ranks #1,379 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

509
229
161
148
101
94
84
84
75
58
58
43
39
36
29
28
26
26
26
25
24
24
23
23
22
19
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CROFT:

22% chance
Suggested:
AISLE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAYEE
7% chance
Suggested:
TASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.6% →
AISLE 6.24 bits
9.7% →
SAYEE 5.10 bits
6.8% →
TASTE 5.55 bits
6.3% →
LAIDE 4.91 bits
4.3% →
SLANE 5.24 bits
4.0% →
LIANE 5.15 bits
3.6% →
SANED 4.37 bits
3.6% →
DIANE 5.13 bits
3.2% →
SLANE 4.83 bits
2.5% →
TASER 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1O1F4T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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