5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NONES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /nəʊnz//nʌnz/

Noun

The divine office appointed to the hour.

“The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.”

Noun

Alternative form of Nones: atheists or those without religious affiliation.

Alternative forms: Non.

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 NONES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NONES 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,925 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position NO_ES N in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE SLART ALTER ACTOR CLARY
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NONES 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,925 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NONES ranks #10,925 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
741
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
22
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

384
358
197
154
149
127
120
104
53
53
47
44
43
43
41
38
32
26
24
23
23
22
17
17
17
16
14
14
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NONES:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
REATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
TRAIL 5.92 bits
15.2% →
REATE 5.56 bits
8.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.5% →
ALTER 4.31 bits
6.3% →
ACTOR 5.01 bits
5.4% →
SLART 5.05 bits
5.1% →
CLARY 4.63 bits
4.4% →
GRANT 5.05 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 4.09 bits
2.2% →
ALINE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1N1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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