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

CROGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 CROGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CROGS 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,142 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__G_ C in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _R__S R in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ANILE STALE LEANT LIANE MATEY DAINE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe CROGS 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CROGS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,142 Rank among openers
Opening with CROGS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,142 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
14
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:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
30%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

CROGS can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

436 answers
269 answers
223 answers
144 answers
107 answers
94 answers
94 answers
83 answers
78 answers
62 answers
58 answers
46 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CROGS:

18% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
ANILE 6.15 bits
11.4% →
STALE 5.78 bits
9.4% →
LEANT 5.07 bits
6.1% →
LEANT 5.06 bits
4.5% →
LIANE 5.13 bits
4.0% →
MATEY 4.51 bits
4.0% →
DAINE 5.29 bits
3.5% →
STRAE 4.73 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 5.27 bits
2.6% →
BAILE 4.97 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1O1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

The science of CROGS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about CROGS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with CROGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses — rank #3,219 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best — rank #1,083 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.68 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it KRAHGZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.