5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

NONCE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% 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.
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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__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

First-turn measures

All four describe NONCE 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,763 Rank among openers
Opening with NONCE 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 3.74 average. It 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
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

NONCE can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

455 answers
348 answers
225 answers
162 answers
126 answers
117 answers
90 answers
84 answers
55 answers
51 answers
49 answers
47 answers
37 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

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.

Try next

SLART STAIR SALTY CLAIM ALIEN SAULT

Strategy after playing NONCE

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

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.

19.2% →
SLART 6.06 bits
14.7% →
STAIR 5.31 bits
9.5% →
SLART 5.31 bits
6.8% →
SLART 5.17 bits
5.3% →
STAIR 5.07 bits
4.9% →
SALTY 4.58 bits
3.8% →
CLAIM 5.13 bits
3.5% →
ALIEN 4.46 bits
2.3% →
SAULT 4.32 bits
2.1% →
ARSON 4.40 bits