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UNFED

Yes, UNFED was the Wordle answer on July 25, 2021 (Wordle #36).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Not fed.

Adjective

Unsupported.

Noun

A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.

“The captured mosquitos were divided into feds and unfeds.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 25, 2021 (#36).

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

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How UNFED performs as a guess

UNFED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

U___D U in the 1st position and D in the 5th position U__E_ U in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__D N in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position UN_ED U in the 1st position, N in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe UNFED 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNFED 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
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,820 Rank among openers
Opening with UNFED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
814
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
11
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:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
22%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
U N F E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNFED in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

UNFED can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

529 answers
377 answers
182 answers
178 answers
160 answers
87 answers
77 answers
74 answers
72 answers
66 answers
53 answers
51 answers
36 answers
33 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1F4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ROAST SLART COAST BURST SORAL ARISE

Strategy after playing UNFED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNFED:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
ROAST 6.07 bits
15.9% →
SLART 5.92 bits
7.7% →
COAST 5.12 bits
7.5% →
BURST 5.10 bits
6.7% →
SORAL 4.60 bits
3.7% →
ARISE 4.44 bits
3.2% →
DEARE 4.71 bits
3.1% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
3.0% →
DAILY 4.80 bits
2.8% →
SLART 5.05 bits

Research on UNFED

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNFED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,448 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 UNFED can 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Related meanings

Opposites fueled

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNFED 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.5 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).