5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CYTON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

perikaryon

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 CYTON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CYTON 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,168 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___N C in the 1st position and N in the 5th position C__O_ C in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _Y__N Y in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE SHARE PARLE SOREL SERAL RAILE
Words starting with C Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.63 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CYTON 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,168 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CYTON ranks #3,168 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
945
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
24
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
1 vowels
Common:
NOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

507
252
168
166
140
86
83
80
60
56
54
52
50
38
38
36
33
32
32
26
24
21
19
18
18
17
16
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CYTON:

22% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SHARE
7% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
RAISE 6.24 bits
10.7% →
SHARE 5.79 bits
7.1% →
PARLE 5.03 bits
7.0% →
SOREL 5.25 bits
5.9% →
RAISE 5.42 bits
3.6% →
SERAL 5.29 bits
3.5% →
RAILE 5.02 bits
3.4% →
SHORT 4.75 bits
2.5% →
SALUE 4.44 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.08 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3Y4T1O1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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