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CORER

Yes, CORER was the Wordle answer on October 15, 2024 (Wordle #1214).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːɹə//ˈkɔɹɚ/

Noun

A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables.

Noun

A device used to take core samples from the earth's crust for analysis.

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: October 15, 2024 (#1214).

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

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How CORER performs as a guess

CORER 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,616 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__E_ C in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position CO_ER C in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CORER 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CORER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,616 Rank among openers
Opening with CORER left 1 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,616 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
37%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
A R R O W
C O R E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CORER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CORER can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

432 answers
339 answers
138 answers
130 answers
111 answers
110 answers
95 answers
86 answers
85 answers
66 answers
59 answers
53 answers
51 answers
37 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
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19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1R1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLATE SLANT TRADE SALTY SLAIN

Strategy after playing CORER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CORER:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
SAINT 6.11 bits
14.3% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
5.8% →
SAINT 5.21 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 5.26 bits
4.7% →
TRADE 4.73 bits
4.6% →
SALTY 4.57 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.80 bits
3.6% →
SAINT 3.95 bits
3.6% →
SAINT 4.77 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.13 bits

Research on CORER

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

Optimal play

Opening with CORER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,629 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 CORER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KAWRUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CORER is a kind of device.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CORER 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).