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NITRE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

UK standard spelling of niter.

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 NITRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NITRE 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #731 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__R_ N in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in NITRE.

First-turn measures

All four describe NITRE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.52 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NITRE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#731 Rank among openers
Opening with NITRE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #731 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
35%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

NITRE can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

280 answers
143 answers
130 answers
128 answers
109 answers
104 answers
97 answers
84 answers
75 answers
61 answers
60 answers
54 answers
52 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1T1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SOULY SOLAR SAULT CAROL DECAL COALY

Strategy after playing NITRE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to NITRE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NITRE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOULY
6% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
5% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
SOULY 5.62 bits
6.0% →
SOLAR 4.29 bits
5.5% →
SAULT 4.83 bits
5.4% →
CAROL 5.26 bits
4.6% →
DECAL 5.03 bits
4.4% →
COALY 4.97 bits
4.1% →
SOULY 5.13 bits
3.5% →
CLAIM 5.00 bits
3.2% →
SHALT 4.81 bits
2.6% →
COAST 3.85 bits

Research on NITRE

Game-tree analysis and word research for NITRE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with NITRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.59 guesses and ranks #97 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NITRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.59, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it NYTRUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NITRE is a kind of nitrate.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NITRE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).