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

UNPIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To unfasten by removing a pin.

Verb

To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.

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 UNPIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNPIN 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 64.2% of games, misses completely in 35.8%, and leaves about 392 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,711 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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__I_ U in the 1st position and I 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 UNPIN.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNPIN 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.

3.66 Entropy (bits)
392 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNPIN 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,711 Rank among openers
Opening with UNPIN left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,711 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
736
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
22
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:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
18%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

UNPIN can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

850 answers
272 answers
253 answers
139 answers
134 answers
86 answers
83 answers
71 answers
59 answers
44 answers
42 answers
37 answers
31 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1P3I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TARSE STILE SOREL STARE ROATE GRISE

Strategy after playing UNPIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNPIN:

36% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOREL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.8% →
TARSE 6.27 bits
11.5% →
STILE 5.26 bits
10.7% →
SOREL 5.26 bits
5.9% →
STARE 5.71 bits
5.6% →
ROATE 5.31 bits
3.6% →
GRISE 4.32 bits
3.5% →
CARET 5.08 bits
3.0% →
SAWER 4.62 bits
2.5% →
COAST 3.94 bits
1.9% →
SLICE 4.46 bits

Research on UNPIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNPIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,861 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 #5,933 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 first syllable Say it UHNPIHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, UNPIN is a kind of undo.

Opposites pin

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNPIN 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).