CROWD
Yes, CROWD was the Wordle answer on June 9, 2024 (Wordle #1086).
As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/[ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d]/ˈkɹæʊ̯d/
- Verb
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To press forward; to advance by pushing.
“The man crowded into the packed room.”
- Verb
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To press together or collect in numbers.
“They crowded through the archway and into the park.”
- Noun
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A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”
- Noun
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Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
“There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: June 9, 2024 (#1086).
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See what the public sample says →How CROWD performs as a guess
CROWD 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 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 253 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,162 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe CROWD 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 CROWD 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 CROWD in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CROWD can come back 94 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 CROWD; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing CROWD
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CROWD.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CROWD:
Research on CROWD
Game-tree analysis and word research for CROWD, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CROWD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,368 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with CROWD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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, CROWD is a kind of gathering or group.
Synonyms push crew BUNCH gang herd
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CROWD sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 50 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 85 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).
In a sentence
It was a good crowd.
I found him in the crowd.
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).