5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COURE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of cower.

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 COURE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COURE 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 87.5% of games, misses completely in 12.5%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #590 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

C___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT SAINT SADLY BARON SHALT SLAIN
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.39 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COURE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#590 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COURE ranks #590 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
1,031
4 guesses
1,059
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
43%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

126 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

294
215
163
142
110
104
85
85
67
54
51
48
39
36
34
33
32
32
27
26
25
24
24
24
23
21
21
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20

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COURE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.5% →
SLANT 5.98 bits
9.1% →
SLANT 5.52 bits
6.9% →
SAINT 4.45 bits
6.0% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
4.7% →
SAINT 5.07 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
3.6% →
SADLY 4.29 bits
3.6% →
SADLY 4.34 bits
2.8% →
BARON 4.11 bits
2.3% →
SHALT 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1U1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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