5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NASHO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Military national service, conscription.

Noun

A person doing military national service.

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 NASHO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NASHO 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,194 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___O N in the 1st position and O in the 5th position N__H_ N in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

PLIER TRACE TRODE TRIPE BLITE TRIDE
Words starting with N Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NASHO 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,194 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NASHO ranks #5,194 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
12
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:
ANOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
19%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

376
231
209
138
134
129
96
83
80
79
72
71
48
44
42
37
35
34
25
24
24
23
23
20
19
19
18
17
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NASHO:

16% chance
Suggested:
PLIER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
PLIER 5.88 bits
9.8% →
TRACE 5.43 bits
8.9% →
TRODE 5.12 bits
5.9% →
TRIPE 5.49 bits
5.7% →
BLITE 4.49 bits
5.5% →
TRIDE 5.21 bits
4.1% →
CRATE 4.71 bits
3.5% →
MOIRE 4.33 bits
3.4% →
TRICE 5.39 bits
3.4% →
PORTE 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1S1H4O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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