5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LURED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of lure

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 LURED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LURED 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,738 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.

L___D L in the 1st position and D in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT STANE COAST BLASE SHUNT MUSTY
Words starting with L Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.11 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LURED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,738 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LURED ranks #1,738 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
963
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
16
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:
ELRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

336
216
183
174
124
111
104
69
65
57
56
47
45
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37
35
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LURED:

14% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
STANE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
9.2% →
STANE 5.47 bits
7.8% →
COAST 5.18 bits
7.4% →
SAINT 5.41 bits
5.3% →
COAST 4.87 bits
4.7% →
BLASE 4.63 bits
4.4% →
SAINT 3.90 bits
2.9% →
SHUNT 4.77 bits
2.8% →
MUSTY 3.83 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1R1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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