5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NIOPO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

Open Solver with NIOPO Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A kind of snuff prepared by some indigenous peoples of Venezuela and Colombia, from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree, Anadenanthera peregrina.

Noun

The tree Anadenanthera peregrina.

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 NIOPO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIOPO 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,365 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___O N in the 1st position and O in the 5th position N__P_ N in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CRATE TALER SALET SERAL SLART
Words starting with N Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIOPO 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,365 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIOPO ranks #9,365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
783
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
24%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

719
223
212
182
132
116
103
102
67
44
44
40
34
30
24
22
21
17
17
17
16
15
12
9
8
8
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIOPO:

30% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
REAST 6.26 bits
9.5% →
CRATE 5.51 bits
9.0% →
TALER 5.25 bits
7.7% →
SALET 5.30 bits
5.6% →
SERAL 5.72 bits
4.9% →
SALET 4.70 bits
4.4% →
SLART 5.11 bits
4.3% →
TARGE 4.69 bits
2.8% →
MATEY 4.48 bits
1.9% →
SLICE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1O1P3O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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