5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CURLI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Thin, coiled, proteinaceous fibres, on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli, by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds etc.

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 CURLI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CURLI 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,952 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___I C in the 1st position and I in the 5th position C__L_ C in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__I U in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

STANE SATED SIENT STOAE TRIED STONE
Words starting with C Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CURLI 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
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,952 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CURLI ranks #2,952 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,140
5 guesses
175
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
2 vowels
Common:
ILRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

348
280
218
192
126
85
81
76
71
68
65
48
47
46
44
43
34
30
27
24
21
21
19
17
15
14
14
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURLI:

15% chance
Suggested:
STANE
12% chance
Suggested:
SATED
9% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
STANE 6.11 bits
11.9% →
SATED 5.39 bits
9.2% →
SIENT 5.46 bits
8.1% →
STOAE 5.35 bits
5.3% →
TRIED 4.79 bits
3.6% →
STONE 5.05 bits
3.4% →
STOAE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
STANE 4.56 bits
3.0% →
SALLE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
SATEM 4.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1L1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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