5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NIKAH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Muslim wedding.

Noun

An Islamic marriage contract, especially (inexact) short for nikah 'urfi, any of various Islamic customary marriage procedures providing limited legal rights.

Alternative forms: nikaah, nicka

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 NIKAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIKAH 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,038 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___H N in the 1st position and H in the 5th position N__A_ N in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER TARSE STILE DORSE SOLED TRONE
Words starting with N Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIKAH 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#9,038 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIKAH ranks #9,038 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
814
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
22%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

513
367
172
136
104
99
98
87
76
70
62
53
44
38
37
33
31
26
22
21
18
17
16
16
15
12
12
11
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIKAH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SOLER 6.07 bits
15.6% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
7.3% →
STILE 5.26 bits
5.8% →
DORSE 5.26 bits
4.4% →
SOLED 4.62 bits
4.2% →
TRONE 4.54 bits
4.2% →
TALER 4.67 bits
3.7% →
TOISE 4.48 bits
3.2% →
TORSE 5.51 bits
3.0% →
LATER 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1K5A1H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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