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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

URBAN

Yes, URBAN was the Wordle answer on March 2, 2024 (Wordle #987).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɜː.bən//ˈɝ.bən//øˈː.bən/

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.

“urban life”

Adjective

Living in a city or town.

Alternative forms: urbane

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: March 2, 2024 (#987).

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

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How URBAN performs as a guess

URBAN 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,568 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___N U in the 1st position and N in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE SOREE SOCLE TARRE TOISE
Words starting with U Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How URBAN 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#5,568 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, URBAN ranks #5,568 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
25%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
A U G U R
U R B A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches URBAN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

398
281
202
154
138
137
96
87
62
60
50
49
44
37
37
35
34
33
24
24
24
17
14
14
14
13
13
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URBAN:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
11.9% →
SLATE 5.65 bits
8.6% →
SOREE 4.97 bits
6.5% →
SOCLE 5.13 bits
5.9% →
TARRE 4.52 bits
5.8% →
TOISE 5.33 bits
4.1% →
SPICE 4.79 bits
3.7% →
STILE 4.43 bits
2.6% →
SURER 4.73 bits
2.5% →
CLOTE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1B3A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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