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CROOK

Yes, CROOK was the Wordle answer on February 15, 2025 (Wordle #1337).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹʊk/[kɹ̠̊˔ʷʊk]/kɹɵk/

Noun

A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

“She held the baby in the crook of her arm.”

Noun

A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

Verb

To bend, or form into a hook.

“He crooked his finger toward me.”

Verb

To become bent or hooked.

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: February 15, 2025 (#1337).

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

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How CROOK performs as a guess

CROOK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,760 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__K R in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET TUILE DIANE LIANE SATED
Words starting with C Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CROOK 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,760 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CROOK ranks #9,760 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
20

Composition

4/5 unique
2 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 O K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CROOK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

780
324
163
129
115
85
67
64
51
43
43
31
30
29
28
25
24
24
23
22
22
18
12
12
12
9
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CROOK:

33% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
SLATE 6.37 bits
13.7% →
SALET 5.38 bits
6.9% →
TUILE 4.82 bits
5.5% →
DIANE 5.05 bits
4.9% →
LIANE 5.21 bits
3.6% →
SATED 4.23 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
2.7% →
LIANE 4.93 bits
2.2% →
ANILE 4.91 bits
1.8% →
ANILE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1O1O1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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