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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

NOBLE

Yes, NOBLE was the Wordle answer on October 27, 2023 (Wordle #860).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊbəl//ˈnoʊbəl//ˈnobɨl/

Noun

An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

“This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.”

Adjective

Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

“He made a noble effort.”

Adjective

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.

“a noble edifice”

Noun

A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 27, 2023 (#860).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How NOBLE performs as a guess

NOBLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,773 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__L_ N in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SHART STAIR GIANT REACT SNEER SAURY
Words starting with N Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOBLE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,773 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOBLE ranks #2,773 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
11
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:
ELNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
L O D G E
N O B L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NOBLE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

351
245
170
141
125
108
95
87
81
69
58
45
43
43
39
35
34
32
29
29
28
24
24
23
21
19
18
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOBLE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SHART
10% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SHART 6.06 bits
10.4% →
STAIR 5.33 bits
7.2% →
STAIR 5.11 bits
6.0% →
GIANT 5.21 bits
5.3% →
STAIR 4.99 bits
4.6% →
STAIR 4.94 bits
4.0% →
REACT 4.69 bits
3.7% →
SHART 4.55 bits
3.4% →
SNEER 4.63 bits
2.9% →
SAURY 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1B3L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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