5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

NINNY

NINNY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 76.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪni/

Noun

A silly or foolish person.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 NINNY performs as a guess

NINNY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 55.4% of games, misses completely in 44.6%, and leaves about 553 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,644 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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__N_ N in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRACE SORAL ROATE ROAST CARTE
Words starting with N Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.09 Entropy (bits)
553 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
76.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NINNY 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.6% Win rate
0.77 Volatility
#14,644 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NINNY ranks #14,644 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
561
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
464
6 guesses
61
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
33%
All gray
45%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
P O U N D
N I N N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NINNY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

49 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1051
293
244
126
115
100
59
58
48
40
35
25
19
18
15
11
9
9
8
7
6
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NINNY:

45% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.6% →
TARSE 6.31 bits
12.4% →
TRACE 5.44 bits
10.3% →
SORAL 4.81 bits
5.3% →
SORAL 5.03 bits
4.9% →
ROATE 4.59 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 4.74 bits
2.5% →
CARTE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
REAST 4.59 bits
2.0% →
GORSE 3.81 bits
1.7% →
SHALT 3.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1N1N1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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