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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

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).

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 2,358 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 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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

Try next

ROAST SLART COAST BURST SORAL ARISE
Words starting with U Words ending with D

First-turn measures

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

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,820 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNFED 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 (3.45 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

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

526
375
181
177
159
87
76
74
72
66
51
48
36
33
22
21
21
21
20
18
17
17
15
15
12
12
12
11
10
9

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 6.08 bits
15.9% →
SLART 5.93 bits
7.7% →
COAST 5.11 bits
7.5% →
BURST 5.10 bits
6.7% →
SORAL 4.57 bits
3.7% →
ARISE 4.44 bits
3.2% →
DEARE 4.71 bits
3.1% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
3.1% →
DAILY 4.80 bits
2.8% →
SLART 5.05 bits

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.