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NYLON

Yes, NYLON was the Wordle answer on October 7, 2025 (Wordle #1571).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪlɒn//ˈnaɪlɑn/

Noun

Originally, the DuPont company trade name for polyamide, a copolymer whose molecules consist of alternating diamine and dicarboxylic acid monomers bonded together; now generically used for this type of polymer.

Noun

A stocking originally fabricated from nylon; also used generically for any long, sheer stocking worn on a woman's legs.

“I tore a hole in my nylons while walking home through the woods.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 7, 2025 (#1571).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How NYLON performs as a guess

NYLON is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,542 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

N___N N in the 1st position and N in the 5th position N__O_ N in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _Y__N Y in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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TARSE RAISE TORSE TIARE STOAE PATER
Words starting with N Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.87 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How NYLON 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,542 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, NYLON ranks #11,542 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,286
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
17%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
N Y L O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches NYLON in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

680
295
256
181
178
80
67
67
57
51
49
47
42
31
30
28
15
15
14
14
12
12
11
11
8
8
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NYLON:

29% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
11% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.8% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
12.5% →
RAISE 5.34 bits
10.9% →
TORSE 5.44 bits
7.7% →
TARSE 5.17 bits
7.5% →
TIARE 5.43 bits
3.4% →
STOAE 4.37 bits
2.8% →
PATER 4.50 bits
2.8% →
TRIDE 4.46 bits
2.4% →
RAISE 4.66 bits
2.2% →
STAGE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1Y4L1O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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