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

UNMIX

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To separate the components of (a mixture).

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

Use UNMIX in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 82.6% 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 UNMIX performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNMIX 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 63.3% of games, misses completely in 36.7%, and leaves about 415 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,147 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe UNMIX 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.

3.51 Entropy (bits)
415 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNMIX 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,147 Rank among openers
Opening with UNMIX 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,147 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
658
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
14%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

UNMIX can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

874 answers
272 answers
245 answers
211 answers
121 answers
115 answers
81 answers
70 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1M3I1X8
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing UNMIX

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNMIX:

37% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.7% →
TARSE 6.34 bits
11.4% →
STIRE 5.30 bits
10.3% →
SOREL 5.36 bits
8.9% →
ROATE 5.28 bits
5.1% →
SOARE 5.44 bits
4.8% →
GRISE 4.38 bits
3.4% →
TALER 5.15 bits
2.9% →
TOUSE 3.77 bits
1.7% →
PRISE 4.37 bits
1.6% →
STALE 4.56 bits

Research on UNMIX

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNMIX, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,525 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,220 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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).