5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

UNSAW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of unsee

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 UNSAW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNSAW 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 215 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,270 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _N__W N in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CARLE CLOTE STILE GOIER STALE
Words starting with U Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.28 Entropy (bits)
215 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNSAW 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,270 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNSAW ranks #8,270 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
801
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
15%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

484
353
196
179
153
121
104
93
71
62
48
39
38
28
26
25
23
23
22
22
19
18
16
16
16
15
11
10
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNSAW:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
TOILE 5.91 bits
15.0% →
CARLE 5.47 bits
8.3% →
CLOTE 5.19 bits
7.6% →
STILE 5.55 bits
6.5% →
GOIER 5.29 bits
5.1% →
STALE 4.73 bits
4.4% →
CRINE 4.49 bits
3.9% →
CLEAR 4.71 bits
3.0% →
SOREL 4.50 bits
2.6% →
TRODE 5.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1S1A1W4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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