5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PICON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.

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 PICON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PICON 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,619 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

P___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__O_ P in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SOREL CRATE SALET SATER TARGE
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PICON 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,619 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PICON ranks #1,619 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
1,002
4 guesses
1,101
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
25%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

559
252
173
138
134
102
86
72
62
58
57
50
46
31
29
25
24
24
24
22
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11
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PICON:

24% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
7% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
TARSE 6.29 bits
10.7% →
SOREL 5.22 bits
7.3% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
5.9% →
CRATE 5.74 bits
5.7% →
SALET 5.30 bits
4.3% →
SALET 4.76 bits
3.6% →
SATER 5.46 bits
3.1% →
TARGE 4.43 bits
2.6% →
SARED 4.30 bits
2.5% →
CHARE 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1C3O1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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