5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

CURVY

CURVY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɚ.vi//ˈkɜː.vi/

Adjective

Having curves.

Adjective

Buxom or curvaceous.

“I love this woman and her curvy body.”

Alternative forms: curvey

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

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 CURVY performs as a guess

CURVY 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,712 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___Y C in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position C__V_ C in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE IRATE ALOSE SLANT LIANE WAITE
Words starting with C Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.07 Entropy (bits)
286 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CURVY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,712 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CURVY ranks #9,712 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
805
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
RU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
34%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CURVY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

641
395
202
136
130
77
67
64
57
54
45
44
34
32
28
27
23
22
21
19
18
16
16
15
12
11
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CURVY:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
17% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
SLANE 6.36 bits
16.8% →
IRATE 5.32 bits
8.6% →
ALOSE 4.74 bits
5.8% →
SLANT 5.43 bits
5.5% →
LIANE 5.18 bits
3.3% →
SLANE 5.02 bits
2.8% →
WAITE 4.89 bits
2.7% →
STALE 4.75 bits
2.4% →
TOUSE 4.48 bits
2.3% →
DRAPE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1R1V4Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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