5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NIVAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats).

Adjective

Found or thriving in snowy conditions.

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 NIVAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIVAL 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,021 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___L N in the 1st position and L in the 5th position N__A_ N in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__L I in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE SOUCE TRICE STALE TRONE
Words starting with N Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIVAL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,021 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIVAL ranks #6,021 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
829
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
16
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:
AILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
22%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

475
324
156
152
148
121
96
87
85
61
53
52
35
34
32
29
27
25
24
23
22
20
19
19
14
14
12
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIVAL:

20% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
14% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
TORSE 6.28 bits
13.7% →
CRATE 5.72 bits
6.6% →
SOUCE 5.19 bits
6.4% →
TORSE 5.31 bits
6.3% →
TRICE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
STALE 4.78 bits
4.1% →
TRONE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
SCOTE 4.29 bits
3.6% →
TRONE 4.55 bits
2.6% →
TREAD 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1V4A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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