5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

UHLAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈ(j)uːlən//ˈuˌlɑn//uˈlɑn/

Noun

A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

Alternative forms: ulan

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 UHLAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UHLAN 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,888 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___N U in the 1st position and N in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__N H in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRODE TARSE CORSE SLIER TOISE SPARE
Words starting with U Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UHLAN 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,888 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UHLAN ranks #4,888 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
13
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:
ALNU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
23%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

422
293
164
162
145
116
77
67
59
57
55
54
48
47
42
38
37
35
33
29
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25
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16
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UHLAN:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
12% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
CORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
TRODE 6.02 bits
12.4% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
7.0% →
CORSE 5.40 bits
6.9% →
SLIER 5.08 bits
6.1% →
TOISE 5.32 bits
4.9% →
SPARE 4.65 bits
3.3% →
TRICE 4.53 bits
2.8% →
TRICE 4.83 bits
2.5% →
STIRE 5.34 bits
2.4% →
PROLE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1H4L1A1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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