5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NATCH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /næt͡ʃ/

Adverb

Naturally; of course.

“The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch.”

Noun

The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

Noun

A notch.

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 NATCH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NATCH 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,370 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___H N in the 1st position and H in the 5th position N__C_ N in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER BLARE GOIER SLIER SILER SLART
Words starting with N Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.77 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NATCH 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,370 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NATCH ranks #1,370 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
1,009
4 guesses
1,101
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
26%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

490
219
190
184
120
104
93
82
58
52
45
40
35
34
32
30
29
26
24
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NATCH:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
9% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
8% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
SOLER 5.95 bits
9.3% →
BLARE 5.42 bits
8.1% →
GOIER 5.42 bits
7.8% →
SLIER 5.66 bits
5.1% →
SILER 4.83 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.96 bits
3.9% →
SILER 5.29 bits
3.5% →
GLARE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
SILER 5.00 bits
2.2% →
ROUET 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1T1C3H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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