5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NIFFY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having a bad smell.

“The gym locker room always smells niffy after a workout.”

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 NIFFY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIFFY 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 59.5% of games, misses completely in 40.5%, and leaves about 483 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,238 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___Y N in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position N__F_ N in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SOARE CARLE SORAL TARGE TORSE
Words starting with N Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.27 Entropy (bits)
483 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.5% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIFFY 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,238 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIFFY ranks #14,238 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
593
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
393
6 guesses
41

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
25%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

956
274
257
223
112
103
71
37
34
33
33
24
17
15
13
12
10
9
8
8
7
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIFFY:

41% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.5% →
TARSE 6.34 bits
11.6% →
SOARE 5.50 bits
10.9% →
CARLE 5.33 bits
9.5% →
SORAL 4.86 bits
4.7% →
TARGE 4.60 bits
4.4% →
TORSE 4.56 bits
3.0% →
URATE 5.14 bits
1.6% →
DANSE 3.73 bits
1.4% →
SOGER 3.97 bits
1.4% →
PAYER 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1F4F4Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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