5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NOONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

At noontimes.

Noun

plural of noon

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of noon

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 NOONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOONS 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 62.0% of games, misses completely in 38.0%, and leaves about 435 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,981 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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__N_ N in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STARE CARLE LATER TARGE CRATE
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.50 Entropy (bits)
435 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOONS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,981 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOONS ranks #13,981 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
656
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
402
6 guesses
36
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:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
30%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

53 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

896
365
176
147
105
88
83
48
44
39
35
35
25
25
20
20
19
18
18
17
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOONS:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.0% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
15.5% →
STARE 5.67 bits
7.5% →
RAILE 5.23 bits
6.2% →
CARLE 4.83 bits
4.5% →
LATER 5.17 bits
3.7% →
TARGE 4.88 bits
3.5% →
CRATE 4.63 bits
2.0% →
REACT 4.05 bits
1.9% →
TIARE 4.60 bits
1.7% →
BALER 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1O1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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