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NEIGH

Yes, NEIGH was the Wordle answer on August 13, 2024 (Wordle #1151).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /neɪ̯//næɪ̯//ne/

Noun

The cry of a horse.

Verb

To make its cry.

Verb

To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 13, 2024 (#1151).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How NEIGH performs as a guess

NEIGH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,532 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__G_ N in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in NEIGH.

First-turn measures

All four describe NEIGH 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.

4.66 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NEIGH 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,532 Rank among openers
Opening with NEIGH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,532 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
E K I N G
N E I G H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NEIGH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

NEIGH can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

447 answers
367 answers
148 answers
134 answers
128 answers
89 answers
78 answers
70 answers
70 answers
69 answers
62 answers
53 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
33 answers
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28 answers
27 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1I1G2H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SOLAR TRAIL ROAST SLART OATER SCARY

Strategy after playing NEIGH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEIGH:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
SOLAR 5.99 bits
15.5% →
SOLAR 5.49 bits
6.2% →
TRAIL 5.07 bits
5.6% →
ROAST 5.11 bits
5.4% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.7% →
OATER 4.65 bits
3.3% →
SLART 4.92 bits
2.9% →
SCARY 4.85 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 5.01 bits
2.9% →
SAULT 4.64 bits

Research on NEIGH

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

Optimal play

Opening with NEIGH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,176 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 NEIGH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it NAY.

Rhymes with TODAY DELAY ANIME ESSAY SPRAY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NEIGH is a kind of cry or utter.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NEIGH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.1 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).