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

UREAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or pertaining to urea.

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 UREAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UREAL 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 91.4% of games, misses completely in 8.6%, and leaves about 90 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,415 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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First-turn measures

All four describe UREAL 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.

5.37 Entropy (bits)
90 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UREAL 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#5,415 Rank among openers
Opening with UREAL left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,415 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
23
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
3 vowels
Common:
AELRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
27%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

UREAL can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

204 answers
180 answers
171 answers
146 answers
126 answers
99 answers
92 answers
85 answers
82 answers
70 answers
62 answers
61 answers
60 answers
59 answers
52 answers
47 answers
45 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1E1A1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing UREAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UREAL:

9% chance
Suggested:
STONY
8% chance
Suggested:
SATIN
7% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.6%
STONY 5.48 bits
7.6%
SATIN 5.25 bits
7.2%
NOISE 5.19 bits
6.1%
SEINE 4.51 bits
5.3%
MUNCH 4.70 bits
4.2%
STANE 4.41 bits
3.9%
SONLY 4.34 bits
3.6%
TARDY 4.09 bits
3.5%
SLAIN 4.05 bits
2.9%
THORN 4.87 bits

Research on UREAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with UREAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,308 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 UREAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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 second syllable Say it YUREEL. 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.