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

NECHE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A town in North Dakota.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use NECHE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% 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 NECHE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NECHE 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,192 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 NECHE 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.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
239 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NECHE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,192 Rank among openers
Opening with NECHE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,192 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
782
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
30%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

NECHE can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

598 answers
237 answers
213 answers
210 answers
132 answers
123 answers
92 answers
80 answers
62 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1C3H4E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing NECHE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NECHE:

25% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
SOLAR 5.90 bits
9.9% →
ROAST 5.17 bits
8.9% →
SLART 5.11 bits
8.8% →
SOLAR 5.08 bits
5.5% →
SORAL 5.26 bits
5.2% →
ROAST 5.30 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.86 bits
3.4% →
OATER 4.30 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.08 bits
1.7% →
CAIRN 4.35 bits

Research on NECHE

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

Optimal play

Opening with NECHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,246 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 NECHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).