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NEXTS

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

No dictionary definition for NEXTS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 NEXTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NEXTS 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,013 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.
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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__T_ N in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position NE_TS N in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NEXTS 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NEXTS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#11,013 Rank among openers
Opening with NEXTS left 3 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 3.78 average. It ranks #11,013 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,318
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

NEXTS can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

444 answers
330 answers
188 answers
167 answers
152 answers
125 answers
111 answers
105 answers
96 answers
86 answers
53 answers
49 answers
49 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1X8T1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

CAROL RAILE ROANY SHALY TAROT SPARE

Strategy after playing NEXTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEXTS:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
CAROL 6.00 bits
13.9% →
RAILE 5.26 bits
7.9% →
ROANY 5.02 bits
7.0% →
SHALY 5.08 bits
6.4% →
TAROT 5.12 bits
5.3% →
SPARE 4.85 bits
4.7% →
LEARE 4.74 bits
4.4% →
ARIEL 4.60 bits
4.0% →
TALER 4.81 bits
3.6% →
ROAST 4.63 bits

Research on NEXTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with NEXTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,263 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,455 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 NEHKSTS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NEXTS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).