5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CURIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

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 CURIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CURIE 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 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #851 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SALTY SLANT SOLAR ARSON SADLY SAINT
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.35 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CURIE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#851 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CURIE ranks #851 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
1,038
4 guesses
1,047
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
41%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

270
210
164
153
135
131
88
65
55
55
50
49
47
44
43
41
37
31
31
28
24
24
23
22
21
20
18
18
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURIE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SALTY
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.5% →
SALTY 5.83 bits
8.9% →
SLANT 5.48 bits
7.0% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
6.5% →
SOLAR 4.28 bits
5.7% →
ARSON 4.92 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
2.8% →
SADLY 3.71 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.49 bits
2.3% →
SAINT 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1I1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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