5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ADOON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A townland north of Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland (Irish grid ref H 1002).

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 ADOON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADOON 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

A___N A in the 1st position and N in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _D__N D in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE SUITE CRUET URITE STURE
Words starting with A Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.18 Entropy (bits)
262 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ADOON 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,329 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ADOON ranks #9,329 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
797
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

550
460
166
156
121
98
87
75
60
48
40
32
32
27
27
23
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADOON:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
20% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SUITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
SLIER 6.10 bits
19.5% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
7.0% →
SUITE 5.22 bits
6.6% →
CRUET 5.07 bits
5.1% →
URITE 5.11 bits
4.2% →
STURE 4.82 bits
3.7% →
SALET 4.47 bits
3.2% →
LEARY 4.72 bits
2.5% →
SLIER 4.80 bits
2.0% →
CORAL 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2O1O1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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