5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

INION

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% 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 62.7% of games, misses completely in 37.3%, and leaves about 435 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,934 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

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

Try next

REAST SOREL SALET SLATE TALER ROUTE
Words starting with I Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
435 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 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
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,934 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, INION 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

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

881
368
207
169
138
81
69
51
41
40
38
37
29
26
19
15
11
11
10
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
7
7
4
4

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.

37.3% →
REAST 6.26 bits
15.6% →
SOREL 5.19 bits
8.8% →
SALET 5.15 bits
7.2% →
SLATE 5.09 bits
5.8% →
SLATE 5.10 bits
3.4% →
TALER 4.73 bits
2.9% →
ROUTE 4.26 bits
2.2% →
STAGE 3.95 bits
1.7% →
CAGEY 3.90 bits
1.7% →
STOIC 3.98 bits

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.