5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

CULCH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kʌlt͡ʃ/

Noun

The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.

Noun

An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.

Adjective

Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

Verb

To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.

Alternative forms: sculch, scultch, kulch, cultch

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 CULCH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CULCH 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 62.3% of games, misses completely in 37.7%, and leaves about 416 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,784 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___H C in the 1st position and H in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__H U in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE STONE TARSE GORSE SAMEY ORATE
Words starting with C Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.70 Entropy (bits)
416 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CULCH 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#11,784 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CULCH ranks #11,784 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
321
6 guesses
33

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
28%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

889
338
143
135
101
81
72
63
49
49
47
34
30
28
25
23
17
13
13
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12
12
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8
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7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CULCH:

38% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
6% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.7% →
TIARE 6.22 bits
14.3% →
TIARE 5.42 bits
6.1% →
STONE 5.39 bits
5.7% →
TARSE 5.76 bits
4.3% →
GORSE 4.78 bits
3.4% →
SAMEY 4.76 bits
3.1% →
ORATE 4.94 bits
2.7% →
TIARE 4.99 bits
2.1% →
TIARE 4.81 bits
2.1% →
FLUTE 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1L1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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