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

UPRAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past of uprun

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 UPRAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UPRAN 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,236 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 UPRAN 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UPRAN 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,236 Rank among openers
Opening with UPRAN left 2 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,236 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
17
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:
ANRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
22%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

UPRAN can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

364 answers
275 answers
217 answers
153 answers
149 answers
134 answers
79 answers
67 answers
59 answers
58 answers
57 answers
51 answers
47 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1P3R1A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing UPRAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UPRAN:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3%
TOILE 6.05 bits
11.6%
SLATE 5.64 bits
9.1%
TOISE 5.14 bits
6.4%
TIARE 4.61 bits
6.3%
SOCLE 5.09 bits
5.6%
TOILE 5.26 bits
3.3%
SALET 4.32 bits
2.8%
SHITE 4.94 bits
2.5%
SHOTE 4.68 bits
2.4%
CLOTE 4.54 bits

Research on UPRAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with UPRAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,209 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,343 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 UHPRUHN. 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.