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NOBLY

Yes, NOBLY was the Wordle answer on June 5, 2026 (Wordle #1812).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊbli//ˈnoʊbli/

Adverb

In a noble manner.

“In the end he died nobly, trying to save the lives of others.”

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: June 5, 2026 (#1812).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 5, 2026 (#1812).

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

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How NOBLY performs as a guess

NOBLY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,310 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___Y N in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position N__L_ N in the 1st position and L 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 NOBLY.

First-turn measures

All four describe NOBLY 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.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOBLY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,310 Rank among openers
Opening with NOBLY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,310 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
914
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
LNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
32%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
F I L T H
L O W L Y
N O B L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NOBLY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

NOBLY can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

601 answers
224 answers
219 answers
178 answers
152 answers
104 answers
76 answers
73 answers
59 answers
57 answers
52 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1B3L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE SATER PARSE CRUET TIARE

Strategy after playing NOBLY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOBLY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3% →
TARSE 6.42 bits
9.4% →
RAISE 5.53 bits
9.2% →
RAISE 5.48 bits
7.5% →
SATER 5.37 bits
6.4% →
PARSE 4.96 bits
4.4% →
CRUET 4.88 bits
3.2% →
TIARE 4.72 bits
3.1% →
SHITE 4.85 bits
2.5% →
IRATE 5.36 bits
2.4% →
SAICE 4.29 bits

Research on NOBLY

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOBLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,047 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 NOBLY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 NAHBLEE.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NOBLY 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.

In a sentence

We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
© tatoeba.org contributor Cangarejo (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).