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

NOINT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of anoint.

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

Use NOINT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% 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 NOINT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOINT 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,758 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 NOINT 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.

4.43 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOINT 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,758 Rank among openers
Opening with NOINT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,758 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
813
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
36%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

NOINT can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

613 answers
183 answers
168 answers
154 answers
153 answers
122 answers
111 answers
93 answers
63 answers
53 answers
52 answers
50 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1I1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing NOINT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOINT:

26% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
SACRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
7.7% →
TARTE 5.64 bits
7.0% →
SACRE 5.19 bits
6.5% →
CARLE 4.70 bits
6.4% →
SIDLE 5.03 bits
5.1% →
CARLE 5.05 bits
4.7% →
CARLE 5.05 bits
3.9% →
SERAL 5.16 bits
2.6% →
CANER 4.22 bits
2.2% →
ARSON 4.46 bits

Research on NOINT

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOINT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,127 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 NOINT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).