Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

NUEVO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture.

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 NUEVO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUEVO 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,404 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NUEVO used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NUEVO 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,404 Rank among openers
Opening with NUEVO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,404 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
31
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
20%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

NUEVO can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

413 answers
407 answers
243 answers
129 answers
128 answers
106 answers
101 answers
96 answers
88 answers
72 answers
60 answers
48 answers
47 answers
39 answers
32 answers
30 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1E1V4O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing NUEVO

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to NUEVO.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUEVO:

17% chance
Suggested:
REATE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4%
REATE 5.65 bits
17.1%
SLART 5.94 bits
10.2%
SLART 5.23 bits
5.4%
CLANG 4.88 bits
5.4%
SLART 5.17 bits
4.5%
WORSE 4.40 bits
4.3%
RANEE 4.69 bits
4.0%
SADLY 4.25 bits
3.7%
ACORN 4.55 bits
3.0%
SLART 4.81 bits

Research on NUEVO

Game-tree analysis and word research for NUEVO, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with NUEVO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,190 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NUEVO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it NWAYVOH.

Rhymes with LAEVO

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NUEVO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).