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

UPRUN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To run up; ascend.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use UPRUN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How UPRUN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UPRUN 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 329 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,225 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 UPRUN 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.

3.77 Entropy (bits)
329 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UPRUN 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,225 Rank among openers
Opening with UPRUN left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,225 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
280
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
19%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

UPRUN can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

699 answers
409 answers
226 answers
162 answers
124 answers
101 answers
77 answers
64 answers
63 answers
56 answers
49 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
23 answers
21 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1P3R1U1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing UPRUN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UPRUN:

29% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
17% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
SLATE 6.33 bits
17.2% →
IRATE 5.30 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.42 bits
6.8% →
SOCLE 4.84 bits
5.2% →
SLATE 5.70 bits
4.2% →
CASTE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.70 bits
2.7% →
PAISE 4.69 bits
2.6% →
IRADE 4.59 bits
2.3% →
COAST 3.91 bits

Research on UPRUN

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

Optimal play

Opening with UPRUN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,527 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,633 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).