Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

NGAPI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.

Alternative forms: ngapee, nga-pee

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Transliteration of Burmese ငါးပိ (nga:pi., literally “pressed fish”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use NGAPI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How NGAPI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NGAPI 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,825 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NGAPI 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NGAPI 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#7,825 Rank among openers
Opening with NGAPI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,825 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
17%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

NGAPI can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

504 answers
295 answers
256 answers
177 answers
152 answers
98 answers
89 answers
79 answers
75 answers
63 answers
61 answers
51 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1G2A1P3I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing NGAPI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NGAPI:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
SOREL 6.03 bits
12.4% →
TALER 5.67 bits
10.7% →
STILE 5.34 bits
7.4% →
SHORE 5.08 bits
6.4% →
TORSE 5.17 bits
4.1% →
SOREL 5.50 bits
3.7% →
RONTE 4.47 bits
3.3% →
ROULE 5.31 bits
3.1% →
TONER 4.48 bits
2.6% →
TALER 4.46 bits

Research on NGAPI

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

Optimal play

Opening with NGAPI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,052 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,307 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).