5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NONDA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Parinari nonda, a shrub or small tree of northern Australia and New Guinea, with edible plum-like fruit.

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 NONDA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NONDA 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,913 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___A N in the 1st position and A in the 5th position N__D_ N in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER SLATE STORE CLOTE STILE URITE
Words starting with N Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.03 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NONDA 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,913 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NONDA ranks #10,913 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

550
485
174
156
121
103
97
66
61
57
49
35
34
24
23
23
21
20
20
19
18
14
13
13
11
10
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NONDA:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
21% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
STORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
SLIER 6.10 bits
20.6% →
SLATE 5.73 bits
7.4% →
STORE 5.06 bits
6.6% →
CLOTE 4.44 bits
5.1% →
STILE 5.16 bits
4.4% →
URITE 5.00 bits
4.1% →
STIRE 4.64 bits
2.8% →
DEALT 4.72 bits
2.6% →
CAROL 4.50 bits
2.4% →
SWIRE 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1N1D2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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