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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 2,374 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 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.
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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in UNSET.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNSET 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,786 Rank among openers
Opening with UNSET left 5 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 3.63 average. It 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
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

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

UNSET can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

336 answers
257 answers
147 answers
137 answers
121 answers
113 answers
107 answers
90 answers
73 answers
72 answers
47 answers
45 answers
43 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

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.

Try next

CAROL DEARE CAIRN SOLAR SCALP CLARY

Strategy after playing UNSET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNSET:

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

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 5.53 bits
6.2% →
CAIRN 5.13 bits
5.8% →
SOLAR 3.95 bits
5.1% →
SCALP 5.23 bits
4.8% →
CLARY 4.78 bits
4.5% →
TOTAL 4.90 bits
3.8% →
SORAL 4.62 bits
3.1% →
LIANE 4.35 bits
3.0% →
IRATE 4.65 bits

Research on UNSET

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNSET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,012 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 UNSET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 second syllable Say it UHNSEHT.

Rhymes with UPSET SWEAT RESET CADET BESET

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UNSET 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).