5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NEXUM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).

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 NEXUM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NEXUM 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,645 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___M N in the 1st position and M in the 5th position N__U_ N in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__M E in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL STAIR LAIRY SLART SURLY ARIEL
Words starting with N Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.76 Entropy (bits)
301 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NEXUM 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,645 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NEXUM ranks #13,645 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
639
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
350
6 guesses
35
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:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
16%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

590
471
213
154
153
124
95
87
71
57
39
35
34
18
17
15
15
13
13
11
11
10
9
9
8
7
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NEXUM:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
20% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
TRAIL 6.01 bits
20.0% →
STAIR 5.37 bits
9.0% →
LAIRY 4.98 bits
6.5% →
SLART 4.92 bits
6.5% →
SURLY 4.83 bits
5.3% →
ARIEL 4.56 bits
4.0% →
COALY 4.87 bits
3.7% →
STURE 4.63 bits
3.0% →
SLANT 4.03 bits
2.4% →
RAILE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1E1X8U1M3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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