CRUNK
CRUNK is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kɹʌŋk/
- Adjective
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Crazy and intoxicated.
- Noun
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A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
- Verb
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To cry like a crane.
- Verb
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simple past and past participle of crank
Alternative forms: krunk
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Attested in the Southern US since the late 1980s, originally in the sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”. Popularized by its use in the fusion genre of crunk music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, on their 1997 debut album Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. Various possible origins have been proposed:
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KRUHNGK.
Use CRUNK in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #109
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CRUNK appeared in RAP SUBGENRES (blue group).
How CRUNK performs as a guess
Wordle accepts CRUNK 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 73.8% of games, misses completely in 26.2%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,356 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CRUNK 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 CRUNK 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
Feedback distribution
CRUNK can come back 93 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 CRUNK; 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 CRUNK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CRUNK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CRUNK:
Research on CRUNK
Game-tree analysis and word research for CRUNK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CRUNK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,671 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 CRUNK can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CRUNK 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).