5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NIXED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of nix

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 NIXED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIXED 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 249 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,568 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___D N in the 1st position and D in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SORAL COAST SLANT SALTY
Words starting with N Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.19 Entropy (bits)
249 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NIXED 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
0.71 Volatility
#9,568 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIXED ranks #9,568 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
17
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:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
26%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

557
398
167
164
154
88
80
79
70
65
64
40
28
27
23
19
18
17
17
17
17
16
15
14
13
12
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11
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIXED:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6% →
ROAST 6.01 bits
16.9% →
SLART 5.91 bits
7.1% →
SORAL 4.58 bits
7.0% →
COAST 5.21 bits
6.5% →
SLART 5.46 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
3.4% →
SALTY 4.36 bits
3.4% →
LEARE 4.82 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.40 bits
2.8% →
DEARE 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1X8E1D2
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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