5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NISEI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈniseɪ/

Noun

One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.

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 NISEI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NISEI 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,706 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___I N in the 1st position and I in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__I I in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

CORAL LEARE SLART SOLAR ROANY ROAST
Words starting with N Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.38 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NISEI 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,706 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NISEI ranks #11,706 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
713
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
25
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:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

434
333
190
162
148
134
129
77
76
71
68
49
46
41
28
27
23
23
22
22
19
18
17
16
15
13
12
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NISEI:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
CORAL 5.89 bits
14.1% →
LEARE 5.51 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.35 bits
6.9% →
SOLAR 4.01 bits
6.3% →
ROANY 4.90 bits
5.7% →
ROAST 4.84 bits
5.5% →
TRAIL 5.29 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.18 bits
3.2% →
LEARE 4.71 bits
3.0% →
TRADE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1S1E1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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