5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ULNAE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ulna

Alternative forms: ulnas

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 ULNAE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ULNAE 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 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 99 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,896 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___E U in the 1st position and E in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SHORT SATYR DETER CRUST POIRE SHART
Words starting with U Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.32 Entropy (bits)
99 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ULNAE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,896 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ULNAE ranks #2,896 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
20
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:
AELNU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
37%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

233
219
205
136
110
87
81
71
69
66
64
60
58
43
38
36
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ULNAE:

10% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
9% chance
Suggested:
SATYR
9% chance
Suggested:
DETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.9% →
SHORT 5.91 bits
9.3% →
SATYR 5.02 bits
8.7% →
DETER 5.33 bits
5.8% →
CRUST 5.05 bits
4.7% →
POIRE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
SHART 4.22 bits
3.4% →
SILLY 4.73 bits
3.0% →
THORN 4.66 bits
2.9% →
CARET 4.24 bits
2.8% →
BETEL 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1L1N1A1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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