5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NAHAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Synonym of wadi.

Noun

A civilian settlement established by the military in Israel and Israeli-occupied territories to support growth and expansion.

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 NAHAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAHAL 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,533 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

N___L N in the 1st position and L in the 5th position N__A_ N in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE TOILE CRATE TORSE PLATE TRINE
Words starting with N Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NAHAL 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,533 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NAHAL ranks #9,533 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
25%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

591
242
214
175
166
128
82
61
58
54
51
50
43
40
40
34
32
27
22
21
21
16
16
14
10
9
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAHAL:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
TOISE 6.07 bits
10.3% →
TOISE 5.54 bits
9.1% →
TOILE 5.10 bits
7.4% →
CRATE 5.45 bits
7.0% →
TORSE 5.65 bits
5.4% →
TORSE 4.84 bits
3.5% →
PLATE 4.51 bits
2.6% →
TRINE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
SOBER 4.03 bits
2.3% →
CRISE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1H4A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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