5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

COURS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

three-month unit of television broadcasting corresponding to a natural season.

Noun

Obsolete form of course.

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 COURS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COURS 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 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,482 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DEALT LAIDE PLATE ALINE ANILE LEANT
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.93 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How COURS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,482 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, COURS ranks #1,482 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
175
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
2 vowels
Common:
ORSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
30%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

417
259
226
115
98
95
84
84
58
54
52
50
47
38
36
36
35
31
29
27
23
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COURS:

18% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
10% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
DEALT 6.09 bits
11.0% →
LAIDE 5.28 bits
9.6% →
PLATE 5.83 bits
4.9% →
ALINE 5.48 bits
4.2% →
ANILE 4.86 bits
4.0% →
LEANT 4.49 bits
3.6% →
DAINE 4.29 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 5.07 bits
2.5% →
SETAE 4.70 bits
2.3% →
LEANT 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1U1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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