5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

UGALI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

African cornmeal porridge

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 UGALI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UGALI 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,783 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

U___I U in the 1st position and I in the 5th position U__L_ U in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _G__I G in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TRINE CATER STORE TALER SOBER
Words starting with U Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.51 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UGALI 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,783 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UGALI ranks #7,783 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
249
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
3 vowels
Common:
AILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
21%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

390
278
254
191
161
110
99
71
67
64
55
48
43
43
39
38
32
31
30
23
19
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17
17
16
13
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12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UGALI:

17% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
CATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
TORSE 5.97 bits
11.8% →
TRINE 5.36 bits
10.8% →
CATER 5.42 bits
8.1% →
TORSE 5.42 bits
6.8% →
STORE 5.03 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.69 bits
4.2% →
SOBER 4.72 bits
3.0% →
NADIR 4.53 bits
2.8% →
SILER 4.38 bits
2.7% →
TRONE 4.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1G2A1L1I1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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