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UNMAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmæn/

Verb

To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

Verb

To deprive of men.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How UNMAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNMAN 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 334 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___N U in the 1st position and N in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe UNMAN 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.

3.74 Entropy (bits)
334 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNMAN 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,474 Rank among openers
Opening with UNMAN left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
643
4 guesses
1,290
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
18%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

UNMAN can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

679 answers
457 answers
236 answers
156 answers
111 answers
85 answers
73 answers
71 answers
52 answers
52 answers
44 answers
43 answers
34 answers
32 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1M3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SOLER TARSE TRICE TALER TORSE SACRE

Strategy after playing UNMAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNMAN:

29% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
SOLER 5.95 bits
19.3% →
TARSE 5.60 bits
9.9% →
SOLER 5.23 bits
6.6% →
TRICE 5.23 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.79 bits
3.6% →
TORSE 5.40 bits
3.1% →
SACRE 4.59 bits
3.0% →
TRACE 4.29 bits
2.2% →
SOWER 4.50 bits
2.2% →
TOUSE 3.74 bits

Research on UNMAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNMAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,958 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,817 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 UHNMAN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, UNMAN is a kind of upset.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNMAN 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.

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).