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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NUMEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnjuː.mΙ™n//ˈnuː.mΙ™n/

Noun

A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.

Noun

An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.

Source: Wiktionary contributors Β· 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 NUMEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUMEN 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,969 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 β†’ yellow β†’ 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__E_ N in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART SOLAR SOILY COAST SORAL
Words starting with N Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NUMEN 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,969 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NUMEN ranks #12,969 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
686
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
322
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

599
446
197
153
101
96
87
85
57
57
54
54
31
27
25
21
19
19
18
16
16
14
13
12
12
11
10
10
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUMEN:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% β†’
TRAIL 6.02 bits
18.9% β†’
SLART 5.82 bits
8.4% β†’
SOLAR 4.52 bits
6.5% β†’
SOILY 4.92 bits
4.3% β†’
COAST 5.20 bits
4.1% β†’
SORAL 5.01 bits
3.7% β†’
SLART 4.38 bits
3.6% β†’
SAINE 4.41 bits
2.4% β†’
STAIR 4.49 bits
2.4% β†’
TIARE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1M3E1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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