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

AXOID

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling an axe.

Adjective

Relating to an axis.

Noun

A helix surrounding an axis

Noun

axis (bone)

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

Use AXOID in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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

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 AXOID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AXOID 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,941 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 AXOID 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.

4.12 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AXOID 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#12,941 Rank among openers
Opening with AXOID left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,941 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
702
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
371
6 guesses
28

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
25%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

AXOID can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
399 answers
298 answers
195 answers
170 answers
85 answers
58 answers
57 answers
54 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
37 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1X8O1I1D2
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing AXOID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AXOID:

21% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
12% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
TARSE 5.56 bits
16.7% →
SLEER 5.78 bits
12.5% →
TRINE 5.30 bits
8.2% →
CRUET 5.04 bits
7.1% →
CRUSE 4.58 bits
3.6% →
CAROL 4.51 bits
2.4% →
SLATE 4.58 bits
2.4% →
LEARY 4.30 bits
2.3% →
DETER 4.55 bits
2.0% →
CRUET 4.50 bits

Research on AXOID

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

Optimal play

Opening with AXOID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,082 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 AXOID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84; proven optimal play reaches 3.81. 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).