5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

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 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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

Try next

SALON SLANT TRAIN TRAPE SHALT SADLY
Words starting with C Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.57 Entropy (bits)
198 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#7,703 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CURER 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 (3.45 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

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

483
347
177
123
109
104
101
87
81
59
54
46
44
33
32
27
26
25
25
23
22
16
16
15
15
14
14
12
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURER:

20% chance
Suggested:
SALON
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
SALON 5.97 bits
14.7% →
SLANT 5.71 bits
7.5% →
TRAIN 5.22 bits
5.2% →
TRAPE 4.68 bits
4.6% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.26 bits
4.3% →
SLANT 3.66 bits
3.7% →
SHALT 4.75 bits
3.4% →
SADLY 4.15 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.32 bits

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.