5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

UNBAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To lift a ban against.

Noun

The removal of a ban.

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 UNBAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNBAN 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 349 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,341 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TARSE SOLER TOISE TALER TARGE
Words starting with U Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.69 Entropy (bits)
349 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNBAN 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,341 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNBAN ranks #13,341 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
663
4 guesses
1,264
5 guesses
363
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
18%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

697
468
240
147
108
78
66
52
51
49
44
38
37
32
21
19
17
17
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12
12
12
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8
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6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNBAN:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
20% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
TOILE 5.97 bits
19.8% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
10.2% →
SOLER 5.18 bits
6.2% →
TOISE 5.28 bits
4.6% →
TALER 4.78 bits
3.3% →
TARGE 4.33 bits
2.8% →
CLOTE 4.83 bits
2.2% →
SOWER 4.46 bits
2.2% →
BLADE 4.48 bits
2.1% →
TOUSE 3.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1B3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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