5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

LURCH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɜːt͡ʃ//lɜɹt͡ʃ/

Noun

A sudden or unsteady movement.

“the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard”

Verb

To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Noun

A predicament or difficult situation.

“to leave someone in the lurch”

Verb

To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

Alternative forms: lorch

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 LURCH performs as a guess

LURCH 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,307 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

L___H L in the 1st position and H in the 5th position L__C_ L in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__H U in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SAINE STANE SIENT CANOE STOAE SONDE
Words starting with L Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LURCH 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,307 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LURCH ranks #3,307 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,102
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
20
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:
LRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
25%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
L U R C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LURCH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

457
364
292
90
85
71
68
66
61
59
46
44
41
40
36
32
29
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LURCH:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
15% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
12% chance
Suggested:
SAINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
SAINE 6.26 bits
15.4% →
SAINE 5.47 bits
12.4% →
SAINE 5.43 bits
3.8% →
STANE 5.21 bits
3.6% →
SIENT 5.44 bits
3.0% →
CANOE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
STOAE 4.72 bits
2.8% →
SONDE 4.28 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.45 bits
2.5% →
IRATE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1R1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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