5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NECHE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A town in North Dakota.

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 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 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

N___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__H_ N in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOLAR ROAST SLART SORAL ALIEN CHART
Words starting with N Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,192 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NECHE 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
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

594
236
213
206
131
122
90
77
61
40
39
37
37
33
29
28
25
25
24
24
23
22
17
16
15
13
12
11
11
10

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.

25.2% →
SOLAR 5.90 bits
10.0% →
ROAST 5.16 bits
9.0% →
SLART 5.11 bits
8.7% →
SOLAR 5.05 bits
5.6% →
SORAL 5.25 bits
5.2% →
ROAST 5.30 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.86 bits
3.3% →
ALIEN 4.19 bits
2.6% →
CHART 4.12 bits
1.7% →
SAINT 4.16 bits

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.