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

NINTA

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

No dictionary definition for NINTA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use NINTA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% 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 NINTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NINTA 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,544 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe NINTA 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.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NINTA 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,544 Rank among openers
Opening with NINTA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,544 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
766
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
21%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

NINTA can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

502 answers
397 answers
165 answers
155 answers
144 answers
107 answers
88 answers
81 answers
66 answers
62 answers
59 answers
48 answers
42 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1N1T1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing NINTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NINTA:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
17% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
SOLER 6.00 bits
16.7% →
CARLE 5.56 bits
6.9% →
SOREE 5.54 bits
6.5% →
CRISE 5.28 bits
6.0% →
SOREL 4.89 bits
4.5% →
DORSE 5.01 bits
3.7% →
SOLED 4.54 bits
3.4% →
SOGER 4.56 bits
2.8% →
CRISE 4.61 bits
2.6% →
SOGER 4.33 bits

Research on NINTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with NINTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,097 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,010 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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).