5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

URUPA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

In Māori culture, a burial ground.

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 URUPA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts URUPA 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 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,260 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___A U in the 1st position and A in the 5th position _R__A R in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLANE TOISE TARRE STILE SNIDE
Words starting with U Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.98 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How URUPA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,260 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, URUPA ranks #12,260 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

532
427
240
170
127
103
91
84
72
63
60
32
27
27
26
25
24
23
18
16
16
15
13
13
9
7
7
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URUPA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
18.1% →
SLANE 5.50 bits
10.2% →
TOISE 5.12 bits
7.2% →
TARRE 4.44 bits
5.4% →
STILE 4.84 bits
4.4% →
SNIDE 4.56 bits
3.9% →
SIENT 5.26 bits
3.6% →
CONTE 4.10 bits
3.1% →
STONE 4.36 bits
2.7% →
STILE 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1U1P3A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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