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

UNBAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.

Verb

To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something).

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 UNBAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNBAR 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,685 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

U___R U in the 1st position and R in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _N__R N in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe UNBAR 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNBAR 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,685 Rank among openers
Opening with UNBAR left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,685 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
15
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:
ANRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
21%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

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

400 answers
283 answers
214 answers
155 answers
152 answers
142 answers
93 answers
85 answers
65 answers
60 answers
48 answers
46 answers
45 answers
43 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1B3A1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE TOISE SOCLE HEART SOILY

Strategy after playing UNBAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNBAR:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
11.9% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
9.0% →
TOISE 5.48 bits
6.5% →
SOCLE 5.15 bits
6.4% →
TOISE 5.34 bits
6.0% →
HEART 4.66 bits
3.9% →
TOILE 4.50 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 3.80 bits
2.7% →
SOUCE 4.79 bits
2.5% →
CLOTE 4.54 bits

Research on UNBAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNBAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,195 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 UNBAR can 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, UNBAR is a kind of open.

Opposites bar

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNBAR 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).