5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

NUKED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of nuke

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 NUKED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUKED 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,787 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___D N in the 1st position and D in the 5th position N__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART CAIRN SOLAR SPURT RAINE
Words starting with N Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NUKED 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#7,787 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NUKED ranks #7,787 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

525
377
175
171
97
95
85
76
76
74
55
49
42
38
38
26
25
22
19
19
18
15
14
13
11
11
11
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUKED:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
ROAST 6.07 bits
16.0% →
SLART 5.95 bits
7.4% →
CAIRN 5.25 bits
7.2% →
SOLAR 4.57 bits
4.1% →
SPURT 5.14 bits
4.0% →
RAINE 4.46 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.27 bits
3.2% →
DEARE 4.71 bits
3.2% →
CLARY 4.90 bits
3.1% →
DAILY 4.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1K5E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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