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

UMRAH

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A minor hajj, a lesser pilgrimage to Mecca, other than at the time of the hajj.

Alternative forms: umra, 'umra

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُمْرَة (ʕumra).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

In a sentence

He did umrah in Mecca.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Sami has performed Umrah twice.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use UMRAH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How UMRAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UMRAH 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,659 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe UMRAH 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UMRAH 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,659 Rank among openers
Opening with UMRAH left 1 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,659 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
21%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

UMRAH can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

435 answers
304 answers
266 answers
167 answers
161 answers
88 answers
78 answers
65 answers
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53 answers
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28 answers
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19 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1M3R1A1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing UMRAH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UMRAH:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
11% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
12.8% →
SALET 5.51 bits
11.2% →
TRIED 5.18 bits
7.0% →
LEANT 4.52 bits
6.8% →
STILE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
STILE 5.52 bits
3.3% →
CLOTE 4.49 bits
2.7% →
TOUSE 4.69 bits
2.5% →
MOILE 5.04 bits
2.2% →
LIANE 4.31 bits

Research on UMRAH

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

Optimal play

Opening with UMRAH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,483 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,938 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UMRAH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).