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

UPLED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of uplead

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 UPLED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UPLED 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,733 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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 UPLED 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UPLED 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,733 Rank among openers
Opening with UPLED left 1 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,733 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
12
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:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
25%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

UPLED can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

462 answers
309 answers
176 answers
163 answers
154 answers
109 answers
90 answers
73 answers
65 answers
62 answers
51 answers
49 answers
48 answers
43 answers
31 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1P3L1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing UPLED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UPLED:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
13% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5%
TRAIN 6.06 bits
13.0%
TIARE 5.53 bits
7.4%
COAST 5.21 bits
6.9%
CRUST 5.14 bits
6.5%
SONAR 4.79 bits
4.6%
SLATE 4.85 bits
3.8%
ROAST 5.22 bits
3.1%
DROIT 4.94 bits
2.7%
IRADE 4.77 bits
2.6%
ROAST 4.69 bits

Research on UPLED

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

Optimal play

Opening with UPLED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,331 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 UPLED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 first syllable Say it UHPUHLD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.