5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NOGGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of noggie.

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 NOGGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOGGY 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 61.6% of games, misses completely in 38.4%, and leaves about 435 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,806 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___Y N in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position N__G_ N in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SATER TIARE SLART CARSE SWARE
Words starting with N Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.51 Entropy (bits)
435 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOGGY 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,806 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOGGY ranks #12,806 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
666
4 guesses
1,331
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
30%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

906
248
243
208
139
79
55
49
40
39
35
33
28
27
21
16
15
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11
11
10
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9
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6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOGGY:

38% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SATER
10% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.4% →
SLATE 6.34 bits
10.5% →
SATER 5.27 bits
10.3% →
TIARE 5.50 bits
8.8% →
SLART 4.92 bits
5.9% →
CARSE 4.87 bits
3.4% →
SWARE 4.51 bits
2.3% →
TRADE 4.99 bits
2.1% →
DROLE 3.70 bits
1.7% →
STIRE 4.32 bits
1.7% →
CRUET 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1G2G2Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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