5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NONCE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /nɒns//nɑns//nɔns/

Noun

A nonce word.

“I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.”

Noun

A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.

Adjective

One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.

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.

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___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__C_ N in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART STAIR SALTY CLAIM ARIEL SAULT
Words starting with N Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NONCE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,763 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NONCE ranks #8,763 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
829
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

455
346
224
161
126
116
89
80
55
51
49
46
37
33
28
27
26
26
25
23
23
22
19
17
15
14
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NONCE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
15% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SLART 6.06 bits
14.7% →
STAIR 5.28 bits
9.5% →
SLART 5.31 bits
6.8% →
SLART 5.17 bits
5.3% →
STAIR 5.07 bits
4.9% →
SALTY 4.57 bits
3.8% →
CLAIM 5.14 bits
3.4% →
ARIEL 4.53 bits
2.3% →
SAULT 4.32 bits
2.2% →
ARSON 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1N1C3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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