Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

KORUN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of koruna

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use KORUN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How KORUN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KORUN 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 209 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,148 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe KORUN 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
209 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KORUN 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,148 Rank among openers
Opening with KORUN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,148 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
914
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
26%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

KORUN can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

542 answers
306 answers
155 answers
145 answers
119 answers
113 answers
95 answers
77 answers
52 answers
52 answers
51 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5O1R1U1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing KORUN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KORUN:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
SLATE 6.43 bits
12.8% →
TEASE 5.24 bits
6.5% →
SAICE 5.28 bits
6.1% →
SLIME 4.98 bits
5.0% →
SLATE 5.30 bits
4.7% →
SALTY 4.47 bits
4.0% →
TRADE 4.39 bits
3.2% →
CASTE 5.03 bits
2.2% →
STURE 4.47 bits
2.2% →
SLAKE 5.07 bits

Research on KORUN

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

Optimal play

Opening with KORUN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,425 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,257 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).