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

AZONS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of Azon

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

Use AZONS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% 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 AZONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZONS 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,707 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 AZONS 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.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZONS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,707 Rank among openers
Opening with AZONS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,707 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
23%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

AZONS can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

464 answers
356 answers
196 answers
191 answers
161 answers
121 answers
91 answers
70 answers
64 answers
59 answers
57 answers
56 answers
53 answers
41 answers
38 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10O1N1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing AZONS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZONS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
15% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
8% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
TRIED 5.99 bits
14.9% →
CARTE 5.49 bits
8.2% →
STIRE 5.41 bits
8.0% →
ROUET 5.13 bits
6.8% →
STALE 5.00 bits
5.1% →
DINER 5.00 bits
3.8% →
TRICE 4.30 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 4.51 bits
2.7% →
PORTE 3.88 bits
2.5% →
MOLAR 4.49 bits

Research on AZONS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZONS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,434 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,579 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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.

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