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UNIFY

Yes, UNIFY was the Wordle answer on December 31, 2021 (Wordle #195).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnɪfaɪ̯/[ˈjʊu̯nɪfaɪ̯]/ˈjuːnəfaɪ̯/

Verb

Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.

Verb

Become one.

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: December 31, 2021 (#195).

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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 UNIFY performs as a guess

UNIFY 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,324 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___Y U in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position _N__Y N in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe UNIFY 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNIFY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,324 Rank among openers
Opening with UNIFY left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,324 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
30%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
J U I C Y
U N I F Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNIFY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

UNIFY can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

728 answers
219 answers
188 answers
186 answers
171 answers
133 answers
70 answers
62 answers
62 answers
53 answers
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36 answers
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13 answers
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11 answers
9 answers
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8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1I1F4Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TARSE TORSE LATER OATER SARED SLATE

Strategy after playing UNIFY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNIFY:

31% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
TARSE 6.31 bits
9.2% →
TORSE 5.59 bits
7.9% →
LATER 5.32 bits
7.8% →
OATER 5.30 bits
7.2% →
SARED 5.01 bits
5.6% →
SLATE 5.00 bits
2.9% →
CATER 4.39 bits
2.6% →
FRATE 5.05 bits
2.6% →
TORSE 4.03 bits
2.2% →
SARGE 4.10 bits

Research on UNIFY

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNIFY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,896 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,336 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YOONUHFY.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, UNIFY is a kind of integrate or change.

Synonyms mix UNITE MERGE mingle

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNIFY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 31 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

In a sentence

He tried to unify the various groups.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
We had different technologies to unify.
© tatoeba.org contributor LK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).