5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

NAMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /neɪmd/

Adjective

Having a name.

“The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.”

Adjective

An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.

Verb

simple past and past participle of name

“Her dog is named Lucky.”

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 NAMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAMED 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,430 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___D N in the 1st position and D in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST TORSE SLART SOILY LOSER SATYR
Words starting with N Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NAMED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,430 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NAMED ranks #4,430 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

361
245
192
149
145
136
100
76
70
66
53
48
39
38
37
36
36
32
30
29
26
21
21
21
19
18
16
16
16
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAMED:

15% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
10% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
HOIST 5.90 bits
10.4% →
TORSE 5.38 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.44 bits
6.3% →
SLART 5.36 bits
6.1% →
SOILY 4.89 bits
5.8% →
LOSER 4.05 bits
4.2% →
SATYR 4.26 bits
3.2% →
SEINE 4.59 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.34 bits
2.8% →
SOULY 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1M3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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