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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier for first-turn info

CURRY

Yes, CURRY was the Wordle answer on June 23, 2026 (Wordle #1830).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌ.ɹi//kɝ.i//ˈkʊ.ɹi/

Noun

One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by a spiced sauce.

“beef curry”

Noun

A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavored with curry powder.

Verb

To cook or season with curry powder.

Verb

To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

Alternative forms: currey, currie

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 23, 2026 (#1830).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 23, 2026 (#1830).

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

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How CURRY performs as a guess

CURRY 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 69.8% of games, misses completely in 30.2%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,548 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CURRY 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.

4.01 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CURRY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,548 Rank among openers
Opening with CURRY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,548 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
795
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
30
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
37%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A P E R Y
C U R R Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CURRY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CURRY can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

716 answers
328 answers
207 answers
144 answers
135 answers
84 answers
80 answers
70 answers
67 answers
46 answers
46 answers
44 answers
25 answers
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16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1R1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLANE SAINE ALOSE SLANT LIANE ATONE

Strategy after playing CURRY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURRY:

30% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
14% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
9% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.2% →
SLANE 6.33 bits
13.8% →
SAINE 5.22 bits
8.7% →
ALOSE 4.75 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.40 bits
5.7% →
LIANE 5.18 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 5.07 bits
3.4% →
ATONE 5.08 bits
2.9% →
STOAE 4.80 bits
2.8% →
STALE 4.82 bits
1.9% →
TOUSE 4.29 bits

Research on CURRY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CURRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,204 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,871 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KUHREE.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CURRY is a kind of dish or season.

Synonyms DRESS GROOM do set arrange

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CURRY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 92 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with taste (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

I made curry for the first time.
© tatoeba.org contributor ryanthewired (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The curry was nothing special.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).