5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NUCIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

juglone

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 NUCIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUCIN 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 65.9% of games, misses completely in 34.1%, and leaves about 353 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,882 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___N N in the 1st position and N in the 5th position N__I_ N in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE STILE CHARE TORSE ROATE MORSE
Words starting with N Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.82 Entropy (bits)
353 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NUCIN 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
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,882 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NUCIN ranks #10,882 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
22%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

804
270
184
138
136
112
93
78
66
50
47
40
32
29
22
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7
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUCIN:

34% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
CHARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.1% →
TARSE 6.35 bits
11.4% →
STILE 5.34 bits
7.8% →
CHARE 5.57 bits
5.8% →
TORSE 5.40 bits
5.8% →
ROATE 5.24 bits
4.7% →
MORSE 4.58 bits
3.9% →
TARGE 4.35 bits
3.3% →
TALER 5.13 bits
2.8% →
SAWER 4.70 bits
2.1% →
SATED 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1C3I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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