5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NITON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Former name of radon.

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 NITON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NITON 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 244 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,608 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___N N in the 1st position and N in the 5th position N__O_ N in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE SEARE SCALE SHORT SPALE CRISE
Words starting with N Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
244 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NITON 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
0.72 Volatility
#9,608 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NITON ranks #9,608 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
772
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
250
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:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
23%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

607
260
220
185
114
92
86
81
58
58
54
54
44
36
34
26
26
25
23
21
17
17
16
16
14
13
11
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NITON:

26% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SEARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
11.0% →
CARLE 5.28 bits
9.3% →
SEARE 5.66 bits
7.8% →
CARLE 5.47 bits
4.8% →
SCALE 5.20 bits
3.9% →
SHORT 4.61 bits
3.6% →
SPALE 4.45 bits
3.4% →
CRISE 4.65 bits
2.5% →
PALER 4.44 bits
2.5% →
SARGE 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1T1O1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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