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

NIGRE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

In soapmaking, the lower layer of liquid produced by pitching, which contains most of the impurities.

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

Use NIGRE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% 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 NIGRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIGRE 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,446 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 NIGRE 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NIGRE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,446 Rank among openers
Opening with NIGRE left 1 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,446 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
34%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

NIGRE can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

361 answers
185 answers
173 answers
170 answers
143 answers
122 answers
114 answers
72 answers
67 answers
58 answers
56 answers
54 answers
50 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1G2R1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing NIGRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIGRE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
SAULT 5.92 bits
7.8% →
SHALT 5.57 bits
7.3% →
SOLAR 4.23 bits
7.1% →
CAROL 5.27 bits
6.0% →
SAULT 5.47 bits
5.1% →
SAULT 5.22 bits
4.8% →
COAST 5.15 bits
3.0% →
EATEN 4.32 bits
2.8% →
SALTY 4.31 bits
2.4% →
COAST 4.63 bits

Research on NIGRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with NIGRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,731 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 NIGRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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).