5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

UVEAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the uvea

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 UVEAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UVEAL 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,363 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___L U in the 1st position and L in the 5th position U__A_ U in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

Try next

SNORT NOIRE TRAIN CRUST TARSE SONLY
Words starting with U Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UVEAL 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#10,363 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UVEAL ranks #10,363 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
761
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
19%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

320
315
295
185
161
102
82
80
70
70
67
61
39
35
31
28
27
25
25
19
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UVEAL:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
13% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
SNORT 5.75 bits
13.4% →
NOIRE 5.32 bits
12.5% →
TRAIN 5.29 bits
7.8% →
CRUST 5.13 bits
6.8% →
TARSE 4.84 bits
4.3% →
SONLY 4.42 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.22 bits
3.4% →
SETER 4.84 bits
3.0% →
TOILE 4.28 bits
3.0% →
CURSE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1V4E1A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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