Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

NAMMA

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

No dictionary definition for NAMMA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use NAMMA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 79.7% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How NAMMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAMMA 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 61.0% of games, misses completely in 39.0%, and leaves about 485 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,068 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NAMMA 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.

3.20 Entropy (bits)
485 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NAMMA 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,068 Rank among openers
Opening with NAMMA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,068 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
590
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
384
6 guesses
32

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
21%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

NAMMA can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

929 answers
368 answers
308 answers
184 answers
108 answers
83 answers
54 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1M3M3A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing NAMMA

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to NAMMA.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAMMA:

39% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.0% →
TOILE 5.95 bits
15.4% →
SLATE 5.62 bits
12.9% →
TOISE 5.42 bits
7.7% →
SLYER 4.76 bits
4.5% →
GLARE 4.71 bits
3.5% →
TORSE 5.33 bits
2.3% →
TOISE 4.04 bits
1.6% →
REALM 4.65 bits
1.5% →
PLIER 4.45 bits
1.3% →
TOILE 4.06 bits

Research on NAMMA

Game-tree analysis and word research for NAMMA, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with NAMMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,445 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 NAMMA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.95, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NAMMA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).