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NOISE

Yes, NOISE was the Wordle answer on November 1, 2023 (Wordle #865).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnoɪ̯z//ˈnɔɪ̯z/

Noun

Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.

“He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise.”

Noun

Any sound.

“The sudden noise made everyone jump.”

Verb

To make a noise; to sound.

Verb

To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

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

Etymology

From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it NOYZ.

Rhymes with POISE NOYES PLOYS

Related meanings

Synonyms interference disturbance racket dissonance

In a sentence

I'm used to the noise.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I was making the noise.
© tatoeba.org contributor Asif (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use NOISE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 1, 2023 (#865).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 1, 2023 (#865).

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

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NOISE in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How NOISE performs as a guess

NOISE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 91.3% of games, misses completely in 8.7%, and leaves about 93 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,762 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

N___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__S_ N in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position NO_SE N in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in NOISE.

First-turn measures

All four describe NOISE 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.

5.44 Entropy (bits)
93 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOISE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,762 Rank among openers
Opening with NOISE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,762 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EINOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
41%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
G O O S E
N O I S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NOISE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

NOISE can come back 113 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

258 answers
208 answers
129 answers
119 answers
117 answers
111 answers
100 answers
81 answers
63 answers
60 answers
59 answers
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48 answers
43 answers
40 answers
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34 answers
29 answers
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25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1I1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

ALTER CLARY TRAIL ACTOR STARY CLANG

Strategy after playing NOISE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOISE:

11% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
CLARY
5% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
ALTER 5.39 bits
8.7% →
CLARY 5.61 bits
5.4% →
CLARY 4.46 bits
5.0% →
TRAIL 4.99 bits
4.9% →
ACTOR 4.94 bits
4.7% →
CLARY 4.60 bits
4.2% →
STARY 4.98 bits
3.4% →
CLANG 4.57 bits
2.6% →
PATER 4.56 bits
2.5% →
RATEL 4.65 bits

Research on NOISE

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOISE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,056 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,372 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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
NOISE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 35 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 54 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (5.0 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).