5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

NUNUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of nunu

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 NUNUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUNUS 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 56.2% of games, misses completely in 43.8%, and leaves about 556 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,556 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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___S N in the 1st position and S in the 5th position N__U_ N in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STALE ARIEL MARLE CAGEY CLOTE
Words starting with N Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.01 Entropy (bits)
556 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NUNUS 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,556 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NUNUS ranks #14,556 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
544
4 guesses
1,311
5 guesses
437
6 guesses
36
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
19%
All gray
44%

Feedback distribution

42 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1033
383
229
117
89
88
71
47
42
41
37
25
24
17
17
15
13
9
8
6
6
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUNUS:

44% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
16% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.8% →
ROATE 6.07 bits
16.2% →
STALE 5.68 bits
9.7% →
ARIEL 5.49 bits
5.0% →
MARLE 4.32 bits
3.8% →
CAGEY 4.66 bits
3.7% →
CLOTE 5.20 bits
3.0% →
TIARE 4.60 bits
2.0% →
TRIDE 4.12 bits
1.8% →
SHALT 3.98 bits
1.7% →
TRODE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1N1U1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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