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

UNGOD

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɡɒd/

Verb

To divest of a god.

Verb

To divest of godly powers; to strip of divinity.

Noun

A false god; an idol

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From un- + god. Compare Dutch ontgoden, German entgöttern.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use UNGOD in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How UNGOD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNGOD 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 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,759 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNGOD 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNGOD 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
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,759 Rank among openers
Opening with UNGOD 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,759 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
17%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

UNGOD can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

756 answers
263 answers
193 answers
168 answers
103 answers
72 answers
64 answers
60 answers
53 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
42 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1G2O1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing UNGOD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNGOD:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STRAE
8% chance
Suggested:
CURSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.7% →
TARSE 6.40 bits
11.0% →
STRAE 5.35 bits
8.1% →
CURSE 5.31 bits
7.0% →
RAISE 5.32 bits
4.3% →
IRATE 5.42 bits
3.0% →
CRATE 4.62 bits
2.7% →
TALER 4.71 bits
2.5% →
PARLE 5.06 bits
2.2% →
ARIEL 4.71 bits
2.0% →
SHALT 3.99 bits

Research on UNGOD

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNGOD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,696 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 UNGOD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).