5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NOMOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The body of law, especially that governing human behaviour.

Noun

A territorial division of ancient Egypt; a nome.

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 NOMOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOMOS 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 67.8% of games, misses completely in 32.2%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,522 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__O_ N in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STARE CRATE CARLE LIANE GRONE
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.85 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOMOS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,522 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOMOS ranks #11,522 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
292
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
22%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

760
323
251
119
118
107
79
57
49
42
41
36
32
29
23
22
21
20
18
18
16
13
12
11
7
7
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOMOS:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
RAILE 6.23 bits
13.7% →
STARE 5.69 bits
10.6% →
RAILE 5.42 bits
5.0% →
CRATE 5.17 bits
5.0% →
CARLE 4.84 bits
4.5% →
CARLE 5.51 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 4.49 bits
2.4% →
GRONE 4.34 bits
2.1% →
REACT 4.21 bits
1.8% →
SPATE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1M3O1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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