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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

CURSE

Yes, CURSE was the Wordle answer on April 2, 2025 (Wordle #1383).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɜːs//kɝs/

Noun

A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

Noun

A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

Verb

To place a curse upon (a person or object).

Verb

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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: April 2, 2025 (#1383).

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

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How CURSE performs as a guess

CURSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,669 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LADEN ARIEL DROIT SLANT AGILE
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.33 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CURSE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#1,669 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CURSE ranks #1,669 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
91
3 guesses
936
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
C U R S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CURSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

127 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

311
199
171
165
122
117
64
61
59
55
53
53
52
50
42
35
33
33
26
26
26
26
23
23
22
19
19
18
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURSE:

13% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
LADEN
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
TALON 5.96 bits
8.4% →
LADEN 5.21 bits
7.3% →
ARIEL 3.91 bits
7.0% →
DROIT 5.30 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 5.10 bits
5.0% →
AGILE 4.63 bits
2.7% →
DAUNT 4.61 bits
2.6% →
LATCH 4.42 bits
2.5% →
MEALY 3.63 bits
2.3% →
STEEL 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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