5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

NORIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.ɹɪə//ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/

Noun

A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.

Noun

Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

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 NORIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NORIA 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 91.4% of games, misses completely in 8.6%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,986 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__I_ N in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SLEPT STILE LEAST SLEET CLOTE
Words starting with N Words ending with A

First-turn measures

5.18 Entropy (bits)
111 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NORIA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,986 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NORIA ranks #2,986 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
970
4 guesses
1,085
5 guesses
210
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AINOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
26%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

301
202
163
153
112
101
91
87
82
77
74
70
51
41
38
38
36
34
27
27
26
24
24
22
22
21
21
21
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NORIA:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLEPT
7% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
SLATE 5.82 bits
8.6% →
SLEPT 5.64 bits
6.9% →
STILE 5.46 bits
6.5% →
LEAST 4.62 bits
4.7% →
SLEET 5.15 bits
4.3% →
CLOTE 4.34 bits
3.9% →
CLOTE 4.93 bits
3.7% →
SPITE 4.30 bits
3.5% →
SALET 4.54 bits
3.3% →
CRUET 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1R1I1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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