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AXION

AXION is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Frank Wilczek in 1978 after Axion, a brand of laundry detergent, for its -on suffix and the notion that the new particle could "clean up" a problem in physics. Also with relation to the axial current.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AXION in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with AXION Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How AXION performs as a guess

AXION is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,385 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,641 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

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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 _X__N X in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AXION 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AXION 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#11,641 Rank among openers
Opening with AXION left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,641 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
318
6 guesses
38

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AINO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
26%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AXION in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AXION can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

461 answers
367 answers
292 answers
161 answers
145 answers
90 answers
86 answers
62 answers
59 answers
56 answers
55 answers
53 answers
50 answers
46 answers
33 answers
23 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1X8I1O1N1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TARSE SLEER STORE TILDE TRUCE LEAST

Strategy after playing AXION

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AXION:

19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
12% chance
Suggested:
STORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
TARSE 5.55 bits
15.4% →
SLEER 5.83 bits
12.2% →
STORE 5.23 bits
6.8% →
TILDE 5.02 bits
6.1% →
TRUCE 5.08 bits
3.8% →
TRUCE 4.74 bits
3.6% →
LEAST 4.51 bits
2.6% →
CRUSE 4.41 bits
2.5% →
CORAL 4.61 bits
2.3% →
CRUET 4.15 bits

Research on AXION

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

Optimal play

Opening with AXION, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,631 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,223 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AXION sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).