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AXIOM

Yes, AXIOM was the Wordle answer on November 21, 2022 (Wordle #520).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈak.sɪ.əm//ˈæk.si.əm//ˈæk.ʃəm/

Noun

A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.

Noun

A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).

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: November 21, 2022 (#520).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 21, 2022 (#520).

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

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How AXIOM performs as a guess

AXIOM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___M A in the 1st position and M in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AXIOM.

First-turn measures

All four describe AXIOM 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AXIOM 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,744 Rank among openers
Opening with AXIOM left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,744 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
682
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
333
6 guesses
29
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AXIOM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AXIOM can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
402 answers
333 answers
200 answers
180 answers
67 answers
59 answers
59 answers
58 answers
56 answers
51 answers
38 answers
37 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1X8I1O1M3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

LEAST SLEER TRONE TILDE STURE TRAIL

Strategy after playing AXIOM

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AXIOM.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AXIOM:

21% chance
Suggested:
LEAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
LEAST 5.56 bits
16.9% →
SLEER 5.84 bits
14.0% →
TRONE 5.23 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 4.96 bits
7.6% →
STURE 4.78 bits
2.8% →
TRAIL 4.83 bits
2.5% →
SUCRE 4.38 bits
2.5% →
CARLE 4.47 bits
2.4% →
CORAL 4.47 bits
2.4% →
SLATE 4.58 bits

Research on AXIOM

Game-tree analysis and word research for AXIOM, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with AXIOM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,926 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,768 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AKSEEUHM.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AXIOM is a kind of saying or proposition.

Synonyms MAXIM

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AXIOM sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

This axiom is unquestionably true.
© tatoeba.org contributor acell (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).