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CURIO

Yes, CURIO was the Wordle answer on June 19, 2025 (Wordle #1461).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯//ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯//ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/

Noun

A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 19, 2025 (#1461).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 19, 2025 (#1461).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CURIO performs as a guess

CURIO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,125 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

C___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__I_ C in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CURIO 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CURIO 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,125 Rank among openers
Opening with CURIO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,125 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
994
4 guesses
1,065
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
17
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:
IORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
29%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
C H O I R
C U R I O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CURIO in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CURIO can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

384 answers
219 answers
217 answers
196 answers
135 answers
111 answers
89 answers
77 answers
64 answers
55 answers
53 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1I1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLATE STILE SLANE LEAST SATED SANED

Strategy after playing CURIO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURIO:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.2% →
SLATE 6.23 bits
9.2% →
STILE 5.37 bits
9.1% →
SLANE 5.25 bits
8.3% →
LEAST 5.24 bits
5.7% →
SATED 4.47 bits
4.7% →
SANED 4.48 bits
3.7% →
STANE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
SAMEL 4.19 bits
2.7% →
LEACH 4.82 bits
2.3% →
LEANT 4.78 bits

Research on CURIO

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

Optimal play

Opening with CURIO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,948 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,493 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, 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 KYUUREEOH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CURIO is a kind of object.

Synonyms curiosity rarity

Familiarity and learning

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