5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NOYAU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots.

Noun

A small nucleus or core group of people or animals.

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 NOYAU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NOYAU 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,080 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 4th position _O__U O in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

STARE SLIER TRICE STIRE WRITE STILE
Words starting with N Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NOYAU 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,080 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NOYAU ranks #11,080 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
765
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
291
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
20%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

360
354
167
165
110
102
96
88
86
86
65
64
58
55
49
47
36
34
27
25
22
19
19
16
13
13
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NOYAU:

15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
STARE 5.49 bits
15.0% →
SLIER 5.87 bits
7.1% →
TRICE 5.17 bits
7.0% →
SLIER 5.35 bits
4.7% →
STIRE 4.91 bits
4.3% →
TRICE 4.62 bits
4.1% →
WRITE 4.31 bits
3.7% →
STILE 4.34 bits
3.6% →
CLEAR 4.56 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1O1Y4A1U1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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