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

UNPOT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To remove from a pot.

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

Use UNPOT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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 UNPOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNPOT 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,252 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNPOT 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNPOT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,252 Rank among openers
Opening with UNPOT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,252 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
962
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

UNPOT can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

541 answers
223 answers
192 answers
174 answers
160 answers
107 answers
101 answers
80 answers
56 answers
49 answers
40 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1P3O1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing UNPOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNPOT:

23% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.7% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
9.4% →
CARLE 5.36 bits
8.1% →
TARTE 5.72 bits
7.3% →
RAILE 5.34 bits
6.7% →
SCALE 5.07 bits
4.5% →
SCARE 5.70 bits
4.2% →
SERAL 5.26 bits
3.4% →
ARIEL 4.47 bits
2.3% →
TARTE 4.60 bits
2.1% →
BALER 4.55 bits

Research on UNPOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNPOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,233 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 UNPOT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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).