CROUP
CROUP is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.
As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kɹuːp/
- Noun
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The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
- Noun
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An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
- Verb
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To croak, make a hoarse noise.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How CROUP performs as a guess
CROUP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,497 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CROUP 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How CROUP 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches CROUP in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CROUP can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for CROUP; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CROUP
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CROUP.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CROUP:
Research on CROUP
Game-tree analysis and word research for CROUP, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CROUP, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,714 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #917 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, CROUP is a kind of disease or part.
Synonyms rump
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CROUP sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).