5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

INURE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪˈnjʊə(ɹ)//ɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)//ɪˈnjʊɹ/

Verb

To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.

Verb

To take effect, to be operative.

“Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".”

Alternative forms: enure

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 INURE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INURE 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,199 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

I___E I in the 1st position and E in the 5th position I__R_ I in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SALTY PETAL SHALT SOLAR CAROL SADLY
Words starting with I Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.20 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How INURE 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#4,199 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, INURE ranks #4,199 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
28
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
3 vowels
Common:
EINRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
32%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

264
185
173
158
135
129
84
82
81
70
59
56
54
46
46
40
40
37
36
33
26
26
24
23
22
21
19
19
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INURE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SALTY
8% chance
Suggested:
PETAL
7% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
SALTY 5.77 bits
7.8% →
PETAL 5.32 bits
7.3% →
SHALT 5.19 bits
6.7% →
SOLAR 4.16 bits
5.7% →
CAROL 5.02 bits
5.5% →
SHALT 5.19 bits
3.6% →
SADLY 4.29 bits
3.5% →
SALTY 4.75 bits
3.4% →
COAST 4.54 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1U1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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