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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 303 possible answers on average.

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

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe NYLON 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,542 Rank among openers
Opening with NYLON 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 3.80 average. It 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 (3.46 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

NYLON can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

684 answers
296 answers
257 answers
181 answers
178 answers
81 answers
67 answers
67 answers
59 answers
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42 answers
31 answers
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28 answers
16 answers
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14 answers
12 answers
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11 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

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.

Try next

TARSE RAISE TORSE TIARE STOAE PATER

Strategy after playing NYLON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NYLON:

29% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% 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
10.8% →
TORSE 5.43 bits
7.6% →
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
2.5% →
REAST 4.70 bits
2.2% →
SAICE 4.24 bits

Research on NYLON

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

Optimal play

Opening with NYLON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,577 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with NYLON can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 NYLAHN.

Rhymes with PYLON

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NYLON is a kind of fiber or material.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
NYLON sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 65 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

She bought a dozen nylon socks.
© tatoeba.org contributor sharris123 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom was tied with a yellow nylon rope.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).