Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

AXITE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A type of smokeless gunpowder.

Noun

The terminal branch of an axon.

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 AXITE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AXITE 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,658 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AXITE 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AXITE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,658 Rank among openers
Opening with AXITE left 5 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,658 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
767
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
27
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:
AEIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
35%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

AXITE can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

300 answers
271 answers
218 answers
137 answers
117 answers
107 answers
91 answers
91 answers
88 answers
88 answers
87 answers
57 answers
54 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
32 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1X8I1T1E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing AXITE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AXITE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
11% chance
Suggested:
SNARL
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6%
SURLY 5.41 bits
11.4%
SNARL 5.02 bits
9.2%
SOLER 4.98 bits
5.8%
ROUSE 4.58 bits
4.9%
REGAL 4.71 bits
4.5%
SONLY 4.69 bits
3.8%
CRUST 5.30 bits
3.8%
CLARY 4.02 bits
3.7%
SONLY 4.33 bits
3.7%
SLANT 4.46 bits

Research on AXITE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AXITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AXITE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.77. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AKSYT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.