Wordle #1,301 Answer
January 10, 2025 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #1,301 was
CRAWL: To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be tricky: uncommon letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,301 scores 43/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,301, measured
Three reads on the same puzzle: where CRAWL ranks in the site's solver replay, what ten well-known opening words would have seen on guess one, and what opt-in players reported. Each number names the dataset it comes from.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion: replayed under the site's fixed solver settings, CRAWL measured harder for the solver than about 43% of all 1,886 recorded answers to date — middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group; it has a 4-word _RAWL family.
Solver pressure describes the answer's position in the pool, not how players performed. The opener table below shows where the pressure came from; the crowd read further down is the human measurement.
The famous-openers benchmark
TRACE opened this one widest: its first-guess feedback left just 6 of the 2,367 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 441 words still standing — about 74 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO went in comparatively blind here — vowel coverage only pays when the answer's vowels are genuinely in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TRACE | TRACE | 6 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 7 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 11 |
| STARE | STARE | 30 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 35 |
| SALET | SALET | 69 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 71 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 79 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 289 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 441 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,367-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener's exactly — pure pattern arithmetic, no simulation. A smaller number means that opener did more of the work on guess one; it says nothing about how the rest of a game unfolds.
The crowd verdict
Not enough contributed games to publish a crowd read for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only once 10 or more opt-in games arrive, so a handful of results can never masquerade as a verdict. See how the Observatory collects and publishes crowd data →
Walk the solver's worked route to CRAWL → It shows the same difficulty from the inside: which guesses shrank the candidate pool, turn by turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to CRAWL.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for January 10, 2025?
- The Wordle answer for January 10, 2025 (puzzle #1301) was CRAWL.
- What does CRAWL mean?
- CRAWL: To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
- Why was Wordle #1301 tricky?
- CRAWL is rated tricky for letter difficulty. Why it may be tricky: uncommon letters, only one vowel.