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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

CROWN

Yes, CROWN was the Wordle answer on August 27, 2024 (Wordle #1165).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹaʊ̯n//kɹæʊ̯n//kɹaːn/

Noun

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

Noun

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

Adjective

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

“crown prince”

Adjective

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

“a crown fire”

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: August 27, 2024 (#1165).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 27, 2024 (#1165).

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

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How CROWN performs as a guess

CROWN 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 212 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,962 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__W_ C in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CROWN.

First-turn measures

All four describe CROWN 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
212 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CROWN 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,962 Rank among openers
Opening with CROWN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,962 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
29%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
A B A C K
C R O W N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CROWN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CROWN can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

563 answers
276 answers
192 answers
132 answers
102 answers
97 answers
88 answers
87 answers
59 answers
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13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1O1W4N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SLATE SALET TUILE MOULT STADE SHALE

Strategy after playing CROWN

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CROWN.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CROWN:

24% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
SLATE 6.50 bits
11.6% →
SALET 5.45 bits
8.1% →
TUILE 5.31 bits
5.6% →
MOULT 4.90 bits
4.3% →
STADE 4.93 bits
4.1% →
SHALE 5.05 bits
3.7% →
ROATE 4.44 bits
3.7% →
SLATE 4.90 bits
2.5% →
MAILE 4.92 bits
2.2% →
THALE 5.11 bits

Research on CROWN

Game-tree analysis and word research for CROWN, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with CROWN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,191 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,412 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KROWN.

Rhymes with BROWN CLOWN DROWN FROWN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CROWN is a kind of symbol or top.

Synonyms top tip peak cap poll jacket

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CROWN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 36 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 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 93 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

Are you looking at a crown?
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The queen has a crown.
© tatoeba.org contributor Native77 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).