5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

NERDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of nerd

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 NERDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NERDS 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,464 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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__D_ N in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COALY OLATE SHALT POTAE TONIC TRAIL
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NERDS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,464 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NERDS ranks #2,464 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
21%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

314
184
179
170
155
148
115
80
64
60
59
55
51
48
41
40
40
35
34
26
25
25
23
22
21
20
20
19
18
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NERDS:

13% chance
Suggested:
COALY
8% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
COALY 5.71 bits
7.8% →
OLATE 5.30 bits
7.6% →
SHALT 5.38 bits
7.2% →
POTAE 4.45 bits
6.6% →
TONIC 5.13 bits
6.3% →
TRAIL 5.12 bits
4.9% →
PLATE 5.08 bits
3.4% →
AINEE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
AUDIT 4.72 bits
2.5% →
COALY 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1R1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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