5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NEUMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of neum

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 NEUMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NEUMS 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,081 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__M_ N in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ORATE SLART CAIRN CLARY ARIEL
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NEUMS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,081 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NEUMS ranks #7,081 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

405
343
176
169
137
130
99
86
56
47
42
40
37
31
29
29
29
28
28
28
27
27
27
21
18
17
17
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEUMS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
TRAIL 6.02 bits
14.5% →
ORATE 5.17 bits
7.5% →
SLART 5.23 bits
7.2% →
CAIRN 5.13 bits
5.8% →
SLART 5.00 bits
5.5% →
CLARY 4.84 bits
4.2% →
ARIEL 4.69 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 4.72 bits
2.4% →
MOLAR 4.79 bits
2.0% →
STAIN 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1U1M3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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