5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NIXES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___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

Try next

CORAL LEARE SLART SOLAR ROANY TRAIL
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,452 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NIXES 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 (3.45 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

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

431
324
196
159
148
138
133
80
77
76
69
53
47
39
37
25
22
22
21
21
20
19
19
17
17
10
10
9
9
8

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.

18.3% →
CORAL 5.89 bits
13.7% →
LEARE 5.46 bits
8.3% →
SLART 5.35 bits
6.7% →
SOLAR 4.01 bits
6.3% →
ROANY 4.90 bits
5.9% →
SLART 5.01 bits
5.6% →
TRAIL 5.24 bits
3.4% →
DIRTY 3.89 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.10 bits
3.2% →
LEARE 4.71 bits

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.