Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

CRUSY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of cruisie.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use CRUSY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How CRUSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CRUSY 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,518 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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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First-turn measures

All four describe CRUSY 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CRUSY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,518 Rank among openers
Opening with CRUSY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,518 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
41%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

CRUSY can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

462 answers
248 answers
189 answers
153 answers
147 answers
100 answers
89 answers
78 answers
70 answers
66 answers
53 answers
53 answers
43 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3R1U1S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing CRUSY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CRUSY:

19% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
10% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
8% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
ALINE 6.27 bits
10.4% →
RATEL 5.16 bits
7.9% →
PLATE 5.76 bits
6.4% →
ALONE 4.67 bits
6.2% →
DIANE 5.31 bits
4.2% →
THANE 5.04 bits
3.7% →
GUILT 5.01 bits
3.3% →
WAITE 4.59 bits
2.9% →
ALONE 5.09 bits
2.8% →
HAOLE 4.93 bits

Research on CRUSY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CRUSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,748 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,546 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).