5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NEONS

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

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

Open Solver with NEONS Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of neon (the fish, neon tetras)

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 NEONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NEONS 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,595 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__N_ N in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL IRATE SLART MOLAR REATE CLARY
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NEONS 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
#10,595 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NEONS ranks #10,595 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
23
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

384
363
197
183
149
139
86
79
73
72
68
43
43
34
30
29
28
25
23
21
20
19
18
17
17
16
15
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEONS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
TRAIL 5.92 bits
15.4% →
IRATE 5.29 bits
8.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
7.8% →
MOLAR 5.09 bits
6.3% →
REATE 4.62 bits
5.9% →
SLART 4.95 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 4.27 bits
3.4% →
MANIC 4.63 bits
3.1% →
VOTER 4.35 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1O1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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