5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ULPAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants.

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 ULPAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ULPAN 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,074 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___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 _L__N L in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE TARSE TRICE LIBEL SALLE SCORE
Words starting with U Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ULPAN 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,074 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ULPAN ranks #3,074 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
8
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)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

438
317
171
155
146
97
92
77
53
52
51
47
45
45
42
41
36
35
33
22
19
18
16
15
14
13
12
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ULPAN:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
TORSE 6.19 bits
13.4% →
TARSE 5.59 bits
7.3% →
TORSE 5.55 bits
6.6% →
TRICE 5.35 bits
6.2% →
LIBEL 4.92 bits
4.1% →
SALLE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
SCORE 5.40 bits
3.3% →
TARGE 4.41 bits
2.2% →
CEDAR 4.33 bits
2.2% →
CORSE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1L1P3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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