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CRUET

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹu.ɪt/

Noun

A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as oil, vinegar, salt, or pepper, for use at a dining table.

Noun

A stand for these containers.

Alternative forms: crewet

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

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 CRUET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRUET 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__T R in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CRUET 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRUET 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#324 Rank among openers
Opening with CRUET left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
96
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,071
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
ERTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

CRUET can come back 134 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

317 answers
237 answers
108 answers
104 answers
103 answers
90 answers
81 answers
80 answers
79 answers
78 answers
66 answers
58 answers
54 answers
44 answers
43 answers
42 answers
38 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1U1E1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE LORRY SOLAR NASTY SNARE

Strategy after playing CRUET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRUET:

13% chance
Suggested:
SALON
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
5% chance
Suggested:
LORRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SALON 6.03 bits
10.0% →
SLANE 5.49 bits
4.5% →
LORRY 4.87 bits
4.4% →
SOLAR 3.75 bits
4.3% →
NASTY 4.88 bits
3.8% →
SNARE 4.46 bits
3.4% →
ALIEN 4.27 bits
3.4% →
TASTE 4.74 bits
3.3% →
DRAIN 4.37 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 4.29 bits

Research on CRUET

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRUET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #150 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 CRUET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 KROOT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CRUET is a kind of bottle.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CRUET sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).