5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CIONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of cion

Noun

Obsolete spelling of scion.

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 CIONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CIONS 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #432 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER PLATE TRADE PALET BLARE LAREE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CIONS 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#432 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CIONS ranks #432 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
1,029
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
INOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
230
178
144
93
89
88
73
69
64
54
50
49
45
36
33
29
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CIONS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
TALER 6.07 bits
9.8% →
PLATE 5.80 bits
7.5% →
TALER 5.29 bits
6.1% →
TRADE 5.64 bits
3.9% →
PALET 4.63 bits
3.8% →
BLARE 4.62 bits
3.7% →
LAREE 5.12 bits
3.1% →
REACT 5.12 bits
2.9% →
PRATE 5.22 bits
2.7% →
STIRE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3I1O1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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