5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

UNSET

UNSET is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɛt/

Adjective

Not set; not fixed or appointed.

Adjective

Not mounted or placed in a setting.

Verb

To make not set.

“to unset a single bit in a binary pattern”

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

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 UNSET performs as a guess

UNSET is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,786 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___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

Try next

CAROL DEARE ROANY SOLAR SCALP CLARY
Words starting with U Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.12 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNSET 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,786 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNSET ranks #2,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
29%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
U N S E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNSET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

335
254
146
137
120
113
107
90
73
72
47
45
41
41
39
37
36
33
31
26
26
25
24
22
21
21
20
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNSET:

14% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
DEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
CAROL 6.04 bits
10.8% →
DEARE 5.52 bits
6.2% →
ROANY 5.01 bits
5.8% →
SOLAR 3.95 bits
5.1% →
SCALP 5.20 bits
4.8% →
CLARY 4.79 bits
4.5% →
TOTAL 4.90 bits
3.8% →
SORAL 4.62 bits
3.1% →
LIANE 4.35 bits
3.1% →
IRATE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1S1E1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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