5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

IMINO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The divalent radical =NH or =N-R.

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 IMINO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IMINO 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,185 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.

I___O I in the 1st position and O in the 5th position I__N_ I in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _M__O M in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST SOREL LATER TRACE SANER CARPE
Words starting with I Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.77 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IMINO 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,185 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IMINO ranks #12,185 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
699
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
20
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:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
21%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

750
362
182
148
129
112
81
77
69
49
49
36
29
24
23
19
16
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9
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IMINO:

32% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
8% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
REAST 6.33 bits
15.4% →
SOREL 5.22 bits
7.7% →
LATER 5.19 bits
6.3% →
TRACE 5.05 bits
5.5% →
SANER 5.18 bits
4.7% →
CARPE 5.12 bits
3.4% →
SAWER 4.61 bits
3.3% →
LEAST 4.80 bits
2.9% →
CANER 4.27 bits
2.1% →
STAGE 3.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1M3I1N1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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