5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

NITES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of nite

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 NITES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NITES 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,617 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL GLARE SCALP SOLAR ROANY CLARY
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.24 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NITES 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,617 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NITES ranks #1,617 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
942
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
26%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

311
234
122
118
114
95
90
90
81
71
65
57
48
47
44
39
35
34
33
33
30
25
25
25
23
22
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19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NITES:

13% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
10% chance
Suggested:
GLARE
5% chance
Suggested:
SCALP

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
CAROL 5.95 bits
9.9% →
GLARE 5.41 bits
5.2% →
SCALP 5.18 bits
5.0% →
SOLAR 3.99 bits
4.8% →
ROANY 4.95 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
3.8% →
PARSE 4.79 bits
3.8% →
TROUT 5.08 bits
3.4% →
CRATE 4.94 bits
3.0% →
SORAL 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1T1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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