5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NIMBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪm.bi/

Phrase

Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).

Noun

Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.

Adjective

Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.

“Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.”

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 NIMBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIMBY 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 67.3% of games, misses completely in 32.7%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,875 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__B_ N in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SOARE TRACE SORAL BLATE CARSE
Words starting with N Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIMBY 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#7,875 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIMBY ranks #7,875 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
814
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
26%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

771
237
222
184
119
113
104
91
35
34
32
30
25
25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIMBY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.7% →
TARSE 6.39 bits
10.0% →
SOARE 5.48 bits
9.4% →
TRACE 5.47 bits
7.8% →
SORAL 5.01 bits
5.0% →
BLATE 5.55 bits
4.8% →
CARSE 5.52 bits
4.4% →
ATONE 4.51 bits
3.9% →
SALET 4.58 bits
1.5% →
SACRE 4.51 bits
1.4% →
DANSE 3.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1M3B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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