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UVULA

Yes, UVULA was the Wordle answer on November 14, 2024 (Wordle #1244).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.vjʊl.ə//ˈju.vjəl.ə/

Noun

Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.

Noun

the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate

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: November 14, 2024 (#1244).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 14, 2024 (#1244).

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

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How UVULA performs as a guess

UVULA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 69.7% of games, misses completely in 30.3%, and leaves about 376 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,036 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 U__L_ U in the 1st position and L in the 4th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in UVULA.

First-turn measures

All four describe UVULA 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.

3.48 Entropy (bits)
376 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UVULA 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,036 Rank among openers
Opening with UVULA left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,036 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
611
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
395
6 guesses
30
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
18%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
A L B U M
U V U L A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UVULA in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

UVULA can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

720 answers
503 answers
189 answers
174 answers
170 answers
91 answers
79 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
35 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1V4U1L1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRONE TARSE REAST SLIER CORSE SWIRE

Strategy after playing UVULA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UVULA:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.3% →
TRONE 6.16 bits
21.2% →
TARSE 5.57 bits
8.0% →
REAST 4.72 bits
7.3% →
SLIER 4.91 bits
7.2% →
CORSE 4.90 bits
3.8% →
TRONE 4.82 bits
3.3% →
SWIRE 4.42 bits
2.1% →
VISOR 4.71 bits
2.0% →
SATEM 4.15 bits
1.8% →
MOIRE 4.65 bits

Research on UVULA

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

Optimal play

Opening with UVULA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,291 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,891 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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 first syllable Say it YOOVLUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, UVULA is a kind of flap.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
UVULA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).