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

NOBBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).

Adjective

Fashionable or chic.

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 NOBBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOBBY 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 62.4% of games, misses completely in 37.6%, and leaves about 433 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,775 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

N___Y N in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position N__B_ N in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NOBBY 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.

3.41 Entropy (bits)
433 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOBBY 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,775 Rank among openers
Opening with NOBBY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,775 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
628
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
370
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
28%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

NOBBY can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

893 answers
286 answers
239 answers
211 answers
145 answers
93 answers
89 answers
51 answers
41 answers
39 answers
32 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1B3B3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE SATER SLART CRUET SLATE

Strategy after playing NOBBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOBBY:

38% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.6% →
TARSE 6.30 bits
12.0% →
RAISE 5.48 bits
10.1% →
SATER 5.27 bits
8.9% →
SLART 4.92 bits
6.1% →
CRUET 4.90 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 5.39 bits
3.7% →
ARISE 4.60 bits
2.1% →
DROLE 3.85 bits
1.7% →
TRIDE 3.79 bits
1.6% →
DAINE 3.85 bits

Research on NOBBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,703 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,837 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 NAHBEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NOBBY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).