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NOMAD

Yes, NOMAD was the Wordle answer on August 12, 2025 (Wordle #1515).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊmæd//ˈnoʊmæd/

Noun

A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

Noun

Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.

Adjective

Synonym of nomadic.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 12, 2025 (#1515).

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

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How NOMAD performs as a guess

NOMAD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,586 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___D N in the 1st position and D in the 5th position N__A_ N in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLATE STILE SPORT CLOTE TRINE
Words starting with N Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOMAD 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,586 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOMAD ranks #4,586 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
14
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:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
25%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L U C I D
G O N A D
N O M A D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NOMAD in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

466
362
166
148
128
104
78
77
69
64
63
48
46
38
27
26
23
21
19
19
18
17
15
15
14
14
12
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOMAD:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
SLIER 6.13 bits
15.4% →
SLATE 5.76 bits
7.0% →
STILE 5.24 bits
6.3% →
SPORT 5.08 bits
5.4% →
CLOTE 4.47 bits
4.4% →
TRINE 4.56 bits
3.3% →
TALER 4.67 bits
3.3% →
DIRGE 4.89 bits
2.9% →
PRICE 5.08 bits
2.7% →
SWIRE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1M3A1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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