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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

CURER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkjʊəɹə//ˈkjɔːɹə//ˈkjʊɹɚ/

Noun

A healer.

Noun

A person who, or device which preserves food by curing.

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 CURER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CURER 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,703 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.
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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 _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CURER 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.

4.57 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CURER 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,703 Rank among openers
Opening with CURER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,703 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
251
6 guesses
23
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

CURER can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

486 answers
349 answers
177 answers
124 answers
113 answers
105 answers
102 answers
88 answers
81 answers
60 answers
54 answers
46 answers
44 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANT TRAIN TRAPE SHALT SADLY

Strategy after playing CURER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURER:

20% chance
Suggested:
SALON
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
SALON 5.96 bits
14.7% →
SLANT 5.70 bits
7.5% →
TRAIN 5.21 bits
5.2% →
TRAPE 4.68 bits
4.8% →
SLANT 4.69 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.25 bits
4.3% →
SLANT 3.71 bits
3.7% →
SHALT 4.77 bits
3.4% →
SADLY 4.15 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.32 bits

Research on CURER

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

Optimal play

Opening with CURER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,617 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 CURER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 KUURUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CURER 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).