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

NOEME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An irreducible unit of meaning; the semantic component of a glosseme.

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 NOEME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOEME 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,707 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 NOEME 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
189 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOEME 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,707 Rank among openers
Opening with NOEME left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,707 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
806
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
19
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
3 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
38%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

NOEME can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

491 answers
233 answers
190 answers
182 answers
176 answers
123 answers
73 answers
71 answers
69 answers
65 answers
45 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1E1M3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing NOEME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOEME:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
LATER
8% chance
Suggested:
GIANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7%
SLART 6.04 bits
9.8%
LATER 5.22 bits
8.0%
GIANT 5.15 bits
7.7%
SLART 5.27 bits
7.4%
SLART 5.29 bits
5.2%
SALTY 4.51 bits
3.1%
SLART 5.01 bits
3.0%
GROAN 4.26 bits
2.9%
SAUCY 4.72 bits
2.7%
LINER 4.54 bits

Research on NOEME

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOEME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,404 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,341 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

One syllable Say it NOHM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.