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

CURIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkjʊəriə/

Noun

Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome

Noun

The Roman senate during the republic

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 CURIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CURIA 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 88.7% of games, misses completely in 11.3%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,865 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CURIA 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CURIA 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#3,865 Rank among openers
Opening with CURIA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,865 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,066
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
21
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
29%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

CURIA can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
269 answers
216 answers
167 answers
160 answers
103 answers
89 answers
77 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
42 answers
42 answers
39 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLATE STOLE SIENT LEAST SOLED SNIDE

Strategy after playing CURIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURIA:

14% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
11.3% →
STOLE 5.70 bits
9.1% →
SIENT 5.30 bits
7.0% →
LEAST 4.75 bits
6.7% →
SOLED 4.74 bits
4.3% →
SNIDE 4.39 bits
3.7% →
STONE 5.06 bits
3.2% →
SLOPE 3.89 bits
2.2% →
THALE 4.44 bits
2.1% →
SENTE 4.41 bits

Research on CURIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with CURIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,295 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KYUUREEUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CURIA is a kind of administration.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CURIA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).