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

LOINS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɔɪnz/

Noun

plural of loin

Noun

The pubic region.

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 LOINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOINS 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #418 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__N_ L in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LOINS 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.

5.07 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOINS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#418 Rank among openers
Opening with LOINS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #418 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,066
4 guesses
1,037
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILNOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

LOINS can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

379 answers
199 answers
181 answers
123 answers
122 answers
114 answers
86 answers
75 answers
65 answers
65 answers
54 answers
52 answers
52 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
37 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1I1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TRACE PRATE CARLE CADET CRATE CARTE

Strategy after playing LOINS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOINS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
PRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TRACE 6.29 bits
8.4% →
PRATE 5.83 bits
7.6% →
CARLE 5.23 bits
5.2% →
CADET 5.32 bits
5.1% →
CRATE 5.23 bits
4.8% →
CARTE 4.65 bits
3.6% →
CATER 4.88 bits
3.2% →
CRATE 5.05 bits
2.7% →
CADET 4.49 bits
2.7% →
THALE 4.69 bits

Research on LOINS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOINS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,267 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #448 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

One syllable Say it LOYNZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LOINS is a kind of area or part.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOINS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 12, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.4 of 5).

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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).