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

UMRAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of umra

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

Use UMRAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% 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 UMRAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UMRAS 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 83.9% of games, misses completely in 16.1%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,414 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 UMRAS 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UMRAS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,414 Rank among openers
Opening with UMRAS left 3 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,414 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,137
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
18%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

UMRAS can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

383 answers
248 answers
238 answers
178 answers
155 answers
132 answers
122 answers
68 answers
62 answers
58 answers
56 answers
52 answers
49 answers
48 answers
38 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
30 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1M3R1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing UMRAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UMRAS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.1% →
TOILE 5.96 bits
10.4% →
CLOTE 5.33 bits
10.0% →
TRIED 5.29 bits
7.5% →
STILE 5.41 bits
6.5% →
LEANT 4.52 bits
5.5% →
CLOTE 5.05 bits
5.1% →
SLATE 4.94 bits
2.9% →
CLOTE 4.71 bits
2.6% →
SHUNT 4.37 bits
2.4% →
TOILE 5.01 bits

Research on UMRAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with UMRAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,215 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,234 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).