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UNMET

Yes, UNMET was the Wordle answer on August 10, 2021 (Wordle #52).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ʌnˈmɛt//ˌʌnˈmɛt/

Adjective

Not met.

Verb

simple past and past participle of unmeet

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 10, 2021 (#52).

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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 UNMET performs as a guess

UNMET 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,155 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___T U in the 1st position and T in the 5th position U__E_ U in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__T N in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position UN_ET U in the 1st position, N in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe UNMET 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNMET 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,155 Rank among openers
Opening with UNMET left 3 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,155 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
19
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:
ENTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
D U V E T
U N M E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNMET in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

UNMET can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

381 answers
305 answers
160 answers
147 answers
141 answers
124 answers
96 answers
81 answers
81 answers
79 answers
57 answers
47 answers
45 answers
45 answers
41 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1M3E1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAROL SEARE ROANY SOLAR SITAR SURLY

Strategy after playing UNMET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNMET:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
SEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
CAROL 5.98 bits
12.8% →
SEARE 5.46 bits
6.7% →
ROANY 4.98 bits
6.2% →
SOLAR 4.43 bits
5.9% →
SITAR 5.03 bits
5.2% →
SURLY 4.92 bits
4.0% →
TARTE 4.89 bits
3.4% →
SOLAR 4.94 bits
3.4% →
CRINE 4.49 bits
3.3% →
SORAL 4.96 bits

Research on UNMET

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNMET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,348 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 UNMET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHNMEHT.

Rhymes with UPSET SWEAT RESET CADET BESET

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNMET sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).