5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

NOILY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Characteristic of noil

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 NOILY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOILY 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,423 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___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

Try next

TARSE REAST CRATE CRUET TRACE CATER
Words starting with N Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.85 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOILY 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
0.69 Volatility
#2,423 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOILY ranks #2,423 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
981
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
20
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:
ILNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
39%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
183
167
133
131
126
105
103
65
65
56
50
49
42
40
38
32
31
31
30
30
28
25
24
20
20
13
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOILY:

19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
REAST
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
TARSE 6.31 bits
7.8% →
REAST 5.40 bits
7.1% →
CRATE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
TARSE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
REAST 5.37 bits
5.3% →
TARSE 4.90 bits
4.5% →
CRUET 4.87 bits
4.4% →
TRACE 5.15 bits
2.8% →
CATER 4.47 bits
2.8% →
TRACE 4.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1I1L1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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