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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

NIXES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of nix

Noun

plural of nixe

Noun

Nothing.

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 NIXES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NIXES 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NIXES 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NIXES 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,452 Rank among openers
Opening with NIXES left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
24
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:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
24%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

NIXES can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

432 answers
325 answers
197 answers
159 answers
151 answers
138 answers
133 answers
80 answers
77 answers
76 answers
70 answers
55 answers
47 answers
41 answers
38 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1I1X8E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

CORAL LEARE SLART OATER ROANY TRAIL

Strategy after playing NIXES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NIXES:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
CORAL 5.88 bits
13.7% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
8.3% →
SLART 5.34 bits
6.7% →
OATER 4.22 bits
6.4% →
ROANY 4.91 bits
5.8% →
SLART 5.01 bits
5.6% →
TRAIL 5.24 bits
3.4% →
DIRTY 3.89 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.10 bits
3.2% →
LEARE 4.71 bits

Research on NIXES

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

Optimal play

Opening with NIXES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,374 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 NIXES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 NIHKSIHZ.

Rhymes with FIXES SIXES

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NIXES is a kind of amount or require.

Synonyms nothing zero zip null forbid veto

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NIXES 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).