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

INION

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.

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 INION performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INION 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 434 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,934 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

I___N I in the 1st position and N in the 5th position I__O_ I in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe INION 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.

3.41 Entropy (bits)
434 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How INION 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,934 Rank among openers
Opening with INION left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,934 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
627
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
372
6 guesses
36
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
25%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

INION can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

882 answers
371 answers
209 answers
170 answers
139 answers
81 answers
69 answers
51 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
29 answers
27 answers
20 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1I1O1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

REAST SOREL SALET SLATE TALER ROUTE

Strategy after playing INION

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INION:

37% chance
Suggested:
REAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.2% →
REAST 6.26 bits
15.6% →
SOREL 5.19 bits
8.8% →
SALET 5.16 bits
7.2% →
SLATE 5.08 bits
5.9% →
SLATE 5.10 bits
3.4% →
TALER 4.73 bits
2.9% →
ROUTE 4.26 bits
2.1% →
STAGE 3.95 bits
1.8% →
CADET 3.94 bits
1.7% →
STOIC 3.98 bits

Research on INION

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

Optimal play

Opening with INION, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.96 guesses and ranks #14,512 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.14 guesses at best and is rank #7,273 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.96, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it IHNEEUHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, INION is a kind of landmark.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
INION 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).