5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NAZIR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Nazir (“Nazarite, a Jew bound by vow to do certain things”).

Noun

The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment.

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 NAZIR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NAZIR 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,734 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___R N in the 1st position and R in the 5th position N__I_ N in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

STOLE SLATE SCOTE STILE TRACE TOUSE
Words starting with N Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NAZIR 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,734 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NAZIR ranks #8,734 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
832
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
20
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:
AINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

388
246
223
185
142
133
126
91
88
73
67
51
47
43
37
34
28
25
25
22
21
19
19
18
14
13
12
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NAZIR:

16% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SCOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
STOLE 5.99 bits
10.4% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
9.5% →
SCOTE 5.47 bits
7.8% →
STILE 5.42 bits
6.0% →
TRACE 4.87 bits
5.6% →
TOUSE 4.95 bits
5.3% →
SUETY 4.50 bits
3.9% →
TOISE 4.33 bits
3.7% →
SOULY 3.85 bits
3.1% →
SPITE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1A1Z10I1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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