5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NIXER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A job or income which is in addition to one's normal employment, generally done in the evening or on weekends; originally, work for payment that was not declared for taxation, now any work that is not part of one's regular job.

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 NIXER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIXER 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,695 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___R N in the 1st position and R in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST TEASE SALTY SLANT
Words starting with N Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% 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 NIXER 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,695 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIXER ranks #10,695 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
763
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
275
6 guesses
31
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:
EINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
25%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

401
297
213
160
140
121
100
79
77
73
69
62
60
51
35
34
29
27
27
21
20
19
18
18
17
14
11
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIXER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
SAULT 5.92 bits
12.6% →
SLATE 5.89 bits
9.0% →
COAST 5.59 bits
6.8% →
TEASE 4.74 bits
5.9% →
COAST 5.17 bits
5.1% →
SAULT 5.22 bits
4.2% →
COAST 3.51 bits
3.4% →
SALTY 4.18 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.60 bits
3.1% →
LEASE 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1X8E1R1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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