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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NISSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A town in Borsele, Netherlands.

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 NISSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NISSE 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 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,011 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__S_ N in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CORAL ALTER GRATE ROANY TRAIL SLART
Words starting with N Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.58 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NISSE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,011 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NISSE ranks #11,011 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
730
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
276
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
34%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

434
324
171
148
139
128
84
80
80
53
49
46
43
43
40
39
34
33
29
22
20
19
18
18
17
15
14
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NISSE:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
GRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
CORAL 5.89 bits
13.7% →
ALTER 5.37 bits
7.3% →
GRATE 4.53 bits
6.3% →
ROANY 4.90 bits
5.9% →
TRAIL 5.29 bits
5.4% →
SLART 4.87 bits
3.6% →
EATEN 4.24 bits
3.4% →
DIRTY 3.89 bits
3.4% →
ROANY 4.15 bits
2.2% →
PATER 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1S1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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