5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

UMIAK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation.

Alternative forms: umiac, umiaq, oomiac, oomiak

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 UMIAK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UMIAK 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,511 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _M__K M in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in UMIAK.

First-turn measures

All four describe UMIAK used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UMIAK 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,511 Rank among openers
Opening with UMIAK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,511 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
742
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
304
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

UMIAK can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

476 answers
431 answers
233 answers
217 answers
151 answers
105 answers
72 answers
68 answers
57 answers
49 answers
49 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1M3I1A1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

SOREL TARSE TORSE RONTE TRONE TALER

Strategy after playing UMIAK

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to UMIAK.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UMIAK:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
18% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
SOREL 5.85 bits
18.2% →
TARSE 5.61 bits
9.8% →
TORSE 5.51 bits
9.1% →
RONTE 5.19 bits
6.4% →
TRONE 5.01 bits
4.4% →
TALER 4.65 bits
3.0% →
TRAIN 4.57 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 4.69 bits
2.4% →
MORNE 4.75 bits
2.1% →
GAUNT 4.22 bits

Research on UMIAK

Game-tree analysis and word research for UMIAK, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with UMIAK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,306 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,865 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YOOMEEKUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UMIAK sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).