5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

UNION

Yes, UNION was the Wordle answer on August 23, 2025 (Wordle #1526).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.njən//ˈjuː.ni.ən/

Noun

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

Noun

The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.

Verb

To combine sets using the union operation.

Adjective

Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.

“Actors have to be union to get work here.”

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: August 23, 2025 (#1526).

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

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How UNION performs as a guess

UNION 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,258 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___N U in the 1st position and N in the 5th position U__O_ U in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

REAST STRAE SERAL LATER TRACE TRADE
Words starting with U Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNION 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,258 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNION ranks #12,258 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
32
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
24%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
O N I O N
U N I O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNION in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

643
301
226
208
155
91
73
67
53
49
47
39
38
29
28
26
25
25
19
16
16
12
11
10
10
10
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNION:

27% chance
Suggested:
REAST
13% chance
Suggested:
STRAE
10% chance
Suggested:
SERAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
REAST 6.13 bits
12.8% →
STRAE 5.28 bits
9.6% →
SERAL 5.14 bits
8.8% →
LATER 5.24 bits
6.6% →
TRACE 5.11 bits
3.9% →
TRADE 4.87 bits
3.1% →
TALER 4.64 bits
2.8% →
CRUET 4.55 bits
2.2% →
CARNE 4.31 bits
2.1% →
TARGE 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1I1O1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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