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NIECE

Yes, NIECE was the Wordle answer on May 24, 2026 (Wordle #1800).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /niːs//nis/

Noun

A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

“My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.”

Noun

A daughter of one’s cousin or cousin-in-law

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

Etymology

From Middle English nece (“niece, granddaughter”), from Old French nece (“niece, granddaughter”) (Modern French nièce (“niece”)) from Late Latin neptia, representing Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂ (“granddaughter, niece”). Doublet of nift.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it NEES.

Rhymes with PIECE PEACE LEASE CEASE OBESE

Related meanings

Opposites nephew

In a sentence

Do you have a niece?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I don't have a niece.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use NIECE in a puzzle

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

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 24, 2026 (#1800).

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

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NIECE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How NIECE performs as a guess

NIECE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,199 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

N___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__C_ N in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NIECE 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NIECE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,199 Rank among openers
Opening with NIECE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,199 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
912
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
19

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
38%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
M I N C E
N I E C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NIECE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

NIECE can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

499 answers
213 answers
179 answers
161 answers
149 answers
101 answers
89 answers
80 answers
61 answers
60 answers
56 answers
47 answers
43 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
32 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
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15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1E1C3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SORAL SOLAR SLART ROAST SALTY RAMEN

Strategy after playing NIECE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIECE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
SORAL 5.97 bits
8.9% →
SOLAR 5.11 bits
7.5% →
SLART 5.26 bits
6.8% →
ROAST 5.28 bits
6.2% →
SLART 5.52 bits
4.2% →
SORAL 5.39 bits
3.7% →
SALTY 4.46 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.36 bits
2.6% →
RAMEN 4.44 bits
2.5% →
SHART 4.73 bits

Research on NIECE

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

Optimal play

Opening with NIECE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,380 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #4,017 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NIECE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 66 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).