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

NIDED

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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 NIDED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIDED 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,644 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 NIDED 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.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
254 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NIDED 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,644 Rank among openers
Opening with NIDED left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,644 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
28%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

NIDED can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

562 answers
406 answers
171 answers
167 answers
162 answers
91 answers
82 answers
79 answers
75 answers
53 answers
44 answers
41 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1D2E1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing NIDED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIDED:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7%
ROAST 6.01 bits
17.1%
SLART 5.94 bits
7.2%
SORAL 4.60 bits
7.0%
COAST 5.21 bits
6.8%
SLART 5.45 bits
3.8%
COAST 4.55 bits
3.5%
SALTY 4.44 bits
3.3%
LEARE 4.82 bits
3.2%
SLART 4.38 bits
2.2%
REATE 4.62 bits

Research on NIDED

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

Optimal play

Opening with NIDED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,176 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NIDED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it NYDIHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.