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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

AXIOM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% 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).

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 2,358 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 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

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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

Try next

LEAST SLEER TRONE TILDE TRUCE TRAIL
Words starting with A Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.99 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.0% 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 opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,744 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AXIOM 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 (3.45 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

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

492
399
331
197
178
67
59
59
58
55
51
38
37
27
24
23
22
16
16
16
16
16
13
12
11
9
9
8
8
8

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.

20.9% →
LEAST 5.56 bits
16.9% →
SLEER 5.85 bits
14.0% →
TRONE 5.24 bits
8.4% →
TILDE 4.95 bits
7.5% →
TRUCE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
TRAIL 4.83 bits
2.5% →
SUCRE 4.38 bits
2.5% →
CARLE 4.48 bits
2.5% →
CORAL 4.47 bits
2.3% →
SLATE 4.57 bits

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.