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

HOLON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One of three kinds of quasiparticle (the others being the spinon and orbiton) that electrons in solids are able to split into during the process of spin–charge separation, when extremely tightly confined at temperatures close to absolute zero.

Noun

Something that is both a part and a whole.

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 HOLON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOLON 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,428 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___N H in the 1st position and N in the 5th position H__O_ H in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in HOLON.

First-turn measures

All four describe HOLON 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HOLON 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,428 Rank among openers
Opening with HOLON left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,428 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
813
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
27%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

HOLON can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

680 answers
303 answers
214 answers
159 answers
124 answers
99 answers
68 answers
62 answers
54 answers
43 answers
39 answers
39 answers
39 answers
37 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1L1O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

IRATE RAISE TIARE TRACE PRATE TARSE

Strategy after playing HOLON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOLON:

29% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
13% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
IRATE 6.12 bits
12.8% →
RAISE 5.36 bits
9.0% →
TIARE 5.51 bits
6.7% →
TRACE 5.73 bits
5.2% →
PRATE 5.29 bits
4.2% →
TARSE 4.88 bits
2.9% →
SABLE 4.82 bits
2.6% →
SAICE 4.24 bits
2.3% →
SAWER 4.58 bits
1.8% →
GLACE 3.79 bits

Research on HOLON

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

Optimal play

Opening with HOLON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,057 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,365 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HOLON sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).