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

UVEAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of uvea

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

Use UVEAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% 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 UVEAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UVEAS 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,756 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 UVEAS 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UVEAS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,756 Rank among openers
Opening with UVEAS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,756 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
705
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
30

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
16%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

UVEAS can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

317 answers
315 answers
278 answers
184 answers
172 answers
128 answers
108 answers
93 answers
72 answers
69 answers
68 answers
59 answers
57 answers
47 answers
44 answers
36 answers
28 answers
28 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1V4E1A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing UVEAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UVEAS:

13% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
12% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
NOIRE 5.17 bits
13.2% →
CRONY 5.58 bits
11.7% →
CAIRN 5.24 bits
7.7% →
CARLE 4.78 bits
7.2% →
TRULY 4.63 bits
5.4% →
SPILT 4.99 bits
4.5% →
SHALT 4.67 bits
3.9% →
RONTE 4.73 bits
3.0% →
SHUNT 4.29 bits
2.9% →
DROLE 4.29 bits

Research on UVEAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with UVEAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,761 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 UVEAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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).