5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

AXIAL

AXIAL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæk.sɪ.əl//ˈæk.si.əl/

Adjective

Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis

Adjective

Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ

“the axial skeleton”

Noun

A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.

Noun

A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.

Alternative forms: axical

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

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 AXIAL performs as a guess

AXIAL 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 71.5% of games, misses completely in 28.5%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,476 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___L A in the 1st position and L in the 5th position A__A_ A in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE RONTE SOUCE TRONE STALE
Words starting with A Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.81 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AXIAL 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,476 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AXIAL ranks #13,476 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
654
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
368
6 guesses
31
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:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
27%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
A X I A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AXIAL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

671
370
216
189
162
124
65
56
50
50
44
41
33
23
22
20
19
17
14
12
12
10
9
9
9
9
9
8
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AXIAL:

28% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.5% →
TORSE 6.23 bits
15.7% →
CRATE 5.58 bits
9.2% →
RONTE 5.25 bits
8.0% →
SOUCE 5.22 bits
6.9% →
TRONE 5.16 bits
5.3% →
STALE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
TREAD 4.39 bits
2.4% →
TILDE 4.38 bits
2.1% →
TRAIN 4.52 bits
2.1% →
DRONE 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1X8I1A1L1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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