5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

NYUSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check NYUSE on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 NYUSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NYUSE 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,389 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___E N in the 1st position and E in the 5th position N__S_ N in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _Y__E Y in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ALTER ARIEL GRAIN DAILY STALK
Words starting with N Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe NYUSE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NYUSE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,389 Rank among openers
Opening with NYUSE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,389 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
812
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
29
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
30%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

NYUSE can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

339 answers
299 answers
176 answers
146 answers
144 answers
113 answers
91 answers
80 answers
64 answers
62 answers
62 answers
61 answers
44 answers
41 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NYUSE:

14% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
CAROL 6.15 bits
12.7% →
ALTER 5.28 bits
7.5% →
ARIEL 4.30 bits
6.2% →
GRAIN 5.23 bits
6.1% →
DAILY 4.55 bits
4.8% →
STALK 4.95 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 4.63 bits
3.4% →
CURIO 4.58 bits
2.7% →
PLIER 4.36 bits
2.6% →
PEART 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1Y4U1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

The science of NYUSE

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about NYUSE — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with NYUSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses — rank #6,215 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NYUSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.72 — the gap is the price of a fixed strategy.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it NYOOZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.