Kuru
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A fatal progressive neurological disease causing increasing loss of coordination and advancing to paralysis, historically associated with the ritual consumption of infected brain tissue among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
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KURU has K and double U, one of the more obscure four-letter Wordle patterns and difficult to guess without prior knowledge
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K scores 5 points, the double U is unusual, KURU is valid in some Scrabble dictionaries but verify before play
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