5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

LURES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural 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 LURES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LURES 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,925 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___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position LU_ES L in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONIC DIANE TRAIN FLAIL SAINT TREAD
Words starting with L Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.25 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LURES 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
#2,925 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LURES ranks #2,925 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
899
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
187
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:
ELRSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
30%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

257
171
168
145
132
120
109
104
96
59
57
53
49
47
47
39
37
33
32
31
29
29
28
25
23
20
19
19
19
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LURES:

11% chance
Suggested:
TONIC
7% chance
Suggested:
DIANE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
TONIC 5.77 bits
7.3% →
DIANE 5.34 bits
7.1% →
TRAIN 5.28 bits
6.1% →
FLAIL 4.81 bits
5.6% →
SAINT 5.25 bits
5.1% →
TREAD 4.71 bits
4.6% →
AINEE 3.25 bits
4.4% →
BLADE 4.47 bits
4.1% →
STANE 4.60 bits
2.5% →
STALL 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1R1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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