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NYMPH

Yes, NYMPH was the Wordle answer on March 27, 2022 (Wordle #281).

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪmf/

Noun

Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc.

Noun

A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.

Verb

To fish using a nymph larva as bait.

Alternative forms: nymphe

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 27, 2022 (#281).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How NYMPH performs as a guess

NYMPH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.4% of games, misses completely in 34.6%, and leaves about 379 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,871 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___H N in the 1st position and H in the 5th position N__P_ N in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _Y__H Y in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE TIARE TALER SLIER TARSE SOARE
Words starting with N Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
379 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NYMPH 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#10,871 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NYMPH ranks #10,871 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
18
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
0 vowels
Common:
N

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
12%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
N Y M P H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NYMPH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

817
327
208
155
137
122
91
43
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34
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NYMPH:

35% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.6% →
ORATE 6.06 bits
13.9% →
TIARE 5.53 bits
8.8% →
TALER 5.03 bits
6.6% →
SLIER 5.70 bits
5.8% →
TARSE 5.67 bits
5.2% →
SOARE 5.58 bits
3.9% →
COATE 4.81 bits
1.8% →
DAINE 3.99 bits
1.7% →
PAIRE 4.65 bits
1.4% →
SATER 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1Y4M3P3H4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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