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

UNAPT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.

Adjective

Unaccustomed.

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 UNAPT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNAPT 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,287 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNAPT 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNAPT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,287 Rank among openers
Opening with UNAPT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,287 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
27%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

UNAPT can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

424 answers
249 answers
172 answers
159 answers
138 answers
135 answers
93 answers
85 answers
82 answers
81 answers
47 answers
46 answers
40 answers
40 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1A1P3T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing UNAPT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNAPT:

18% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9%
DROLE 6.08 bits
10.5%
CARLE 5.39 bits
7.2%
GOIER 5.33 bits
6.7%
SOCLE 5.12 bits
5.8%
CRISE 5.04 bits
5.7%
SHORE 5.43 bits
3.9%
SLIER 5.47 bits
3.6%
GOIER 4.40 bits
3.5%
TARTE 4.77 bits
3.4%
SHIER 5.13 bits

Research on UNAPT

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNAPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,441 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with UNAPT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHNAPT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.