Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CUNIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A unit of measure for wood, equal to 100 cubic feet.

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 CUNIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CUNIT 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #872 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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

4.87 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CUNIT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#872 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CUNIT ranks #872 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
1,041
4 guesses
1,058
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
17
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:
INTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
35%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

543
187
178
142
86
85
84
79
74
68
54
46
43
37
34
29
25
24
23
21
20
20
18
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUNIT:

23% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0%
SERAL 6.11 bits
7.9%
TARTE 5.74 bits
7.5%
SIDLE 5.34 bits
6.0%
LEARN 5.20 bits
3.6%
MARSE 4.56 bits
3.6%
SOARE 5.19 bits
3.6%
ALOSE 5.09 bits
3.4%
SERAL 5.14 bits
3.1%
SERAL 5.24 bits
2.9%
SARGE 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1N1I1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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