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UNZIP

Yes, UNZIP was the Wordle answer on April 23, 2023 (Wordle #673).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To open something using a zipper.

Verb

To come open by means of a zipper.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 23, 2023 (#673).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How UNZIP performs as a guess

UNZIP is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 386 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,153 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___P U in the 1st position and P in the 5th position U__I_ U in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _N__P N in the 2nd position and P in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE STILE SOREL ROATE GRISE TALER
Words starting with U Words ending with P

First-turn measures

3.56 Entropy (bits)
386 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNZIP 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,153 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNZIP ranks #12,153 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
711
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
14%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C H U M P
U N Z I P

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNZIP in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

828
262
250
205
137
106
82
68
44
40
35
31
31
26
22
18
16
16
13
13
13
9
8
7
6
6
6
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNZIP:

35% 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.

35.1% →
TARSE 6.28 bits
11.1% →
STILE 5.28 bits
10.6% →
SOREL 5.28 bits
8.7% →
ROATE 5.32 bits
5.8% →
TARSE 5.77 bits
4.5% →
GRISE 4.48 bits
3.5% →
TALER 5.05 bits
2.9% →
TOUSE 3.77 bits
1.9% →
STILE 4.33 bits
1.7% →
ERASE 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1Z10I1P3
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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