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NOMAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnoʊ.mæs/

Proper noun

Acronym of National Organization for Men Against Sexism.

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 NOMAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOMAS 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,131 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

N___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__A_ N in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NOMAS 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NOMAS 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,131 Rank among openers
Opening with NOMAS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,131 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

NOMAS can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
292 answers
172 answers
146 answers
129 answers
123 answers
115 answers
94 answers
71 answers
57 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
50 answers
48 answers
37 answers
34 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1M3A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRIED CARLE STIRE TRICE THALE CLOTE

Strategy after playing NOMAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOMAS:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
TRIED 6.05 bits
12.3% →
CARLE 5.47 bits
7.2% →
STIRE 5.41 bits
6.1% →
TRICE 5.21 bits
5.4% →
THALE 5.00 bits
5.2% →
TRICE 5.03 bits
4.8% →
CLOTE 4.33 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 4.62 bits
3.0% →
REACT 4.40 bits
2.4% →
SPORT 4.01 bits

Research on NOMAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with NOMAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,593 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 #1,392 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it NOHMUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NOMAS is a kind of ulcer.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NOMAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).