5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NAINS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of nain

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 NAINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAINS 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,020 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__N_ N in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROUET ALERT TILDE CLOTE THALE TRUCE
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.39 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NAINS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,020 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NAINS ranks #10,020 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
782
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
27
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:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

483
286
202
167
160
125
103
90
64
54
45
44
44
40
39
38
37
32
26
21
18
17
15
15
14
13
13
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAINS:

20% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
ROUET 5.91 bits
12.1% →
ALERT 5.50 bits
8.6% →
ROUET 5.44 bits
7.1% →
TILDE 5.18 bits
6.8% →
CLOTE 4.64 bits
5.3% →
THALE 4.77 bits
4.4% →
TRUCE 5.05 bits
3.8% →
MOREE 4.69 bits
2.7% →
TONEY 4.25 bits
2.3% →
STOLE 4.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1I1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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