5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

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.

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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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

N___O N in the 1st position and O in the 5th position N__V_ N in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REATE SLART CLANG WORSE RAISE SADLY
Words starting with N Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,404 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NUEVO 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 (3.45 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

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
405
242
129
128
105
99
96
87
72
60
47
46
39
32
29
25
20
20
20
19
16
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14
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11
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10

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
17.2% →
SLART 5.94 bits
10.3% →
SLART 5.22 bits
5.5% →
CLANG 4.87 bits
5.4% →
SLART 5.17 bits
4.5% →
WORSE 4.41 bits
4.2% →
RAISE 4.75 bits
4.1% →
SADLY 4.25 bits
3.7% →
ACORN 4.55 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.81 bits

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.