5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NONDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A coarse umbelliferous North American plant in the genus Ligusticum, with a large aromatic root.

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 NONDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NONDO 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 54.6% of games, misses completely in 45.4%, and leaves about 552 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,456 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___O N in the 1st position and O in the 5th position N__D_ N in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE RAISE SATER ARIEL CARET SAICE
Words starting with N Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.22 Entropy (bits)
552 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NONDO 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,456 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NONDO ranks #13,456 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
643
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
348
6 guesses
20
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
22%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1070
224
186
173
155
74
72
43
33
30
29
29
23
22
19
19
15
12
11
8
8
8
7
7
7
6
6
6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NONDO:

45% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.4% →
SLATE 6.34 bits
9.5% →
RAISE 5.32 bits
7.9% →
SATER 5.20 bits
7.3% →
ARIEL 5.63 bits
6.6% →
CARET 4.78 bits
3.1% →
SAICE 4.71 bits
3.1% →
SARGE 4.51 bits
1.8% →
URASE 4.41 bits
1.4% →
RAINE 4.31 bits
1.3% →
CRATE 4.19 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1N1D2O1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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