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

NOEMA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /nəʊˈiːmə//noʊˈimə/

Noun

The perceived as perceived

Noun

That which is perceived in the noesis/noema duality

Alternative forms: noêma, noëma, noēma

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “concept”, “idea”, “perception”, “thought”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use NOEMA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How NOEMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOEMA 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 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,239 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NOEMA 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.

4.91 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOEMA 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,239 Rank among openers
Opening with NOEMA solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,239 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
826
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
25%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

NOEMA can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

255 answers
238 answers
236 answers
228 answers
116 answers
97 answers
94 answers
93 answers
92 answers
81 answers
68 answers
61 answers
55 answers
48 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1E1M3A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing NOEMA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOEMA:

11% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
SIREE 5.32 bits
10.0% →
SLART 5.34 bits
9.9% →
SPILT 5.66 bits
9.6% →
SLART 5.03 bits
4.9% →
STOOL 4.83 bits
4.1% →
SETER 4.69 bits
3.9% →
STAIR 4.37 bits
3.9% →
CLUNG 4.61 bits
3.9% →
SALTY 3.86 bits
3.4% →
SIREE 4.61 bits

Research on NOEMA

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOEMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,453 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 NOEMA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NOEMA 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.

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