5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ULANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of 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 ULANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ULANS 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,091 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

U___S U in the 1st position and S in the 5th position U__N_ U in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRODE CARET PORTE LIBEL DINER TALER
Words starting with U Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ULANS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,091 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ULANS ranks #1,091 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
1,008
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
15
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:
ALNSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

375
215
165
136
134
118
97
92
67
65
61
57
52
42
40
38
34
28
26
25
24
21
21
21
21
20
20
18
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ULANS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARET
7% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
TRODE 6.09 bits
9.1% →
CARET 5.40 bits
7.0% →
PORTE 5.60 bits
5.8% →
PORTE 5.29 bits
5.7% →
LIBEL 5.00 bits
5.0% →
DINER 5.18 bits
4.1% →
TALER 4.63 bits
3.9% →
TRICE 5.19 bits
2.8% →
CANOE 4.52 bits
2.8% →
PEART 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1L1A1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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