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.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /neɪmd/
- Adjective
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Having a name.
“The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.”
- Adjective
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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
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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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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See what the public sample says →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 opener benchmark, it ranks #4,430 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe NAMED 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.
As an opening guess: previous 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
NAMED can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for NAMED; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing NAMED
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to NAMED.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing NAMED:
Research on NAMED
Game-tree analysis and word research for NAMED, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with NAMED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,845 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NAMED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66; proven optimal play reaches 3.65. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, NAMED is a kind of part or reputation.
Synonyms make call list key figure mention
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- NAMED sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 89 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 21 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
In a sentence
That's what they named her.
That's what they named him.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).