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

PYLON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.lɒn//ˈpaɪ.lən/

Noun

A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.

Noun

A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

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 PYLON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PYLON 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,100 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

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 _Y__N Y in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PYLON 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.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PYLON 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#3,100 Rank among openers
Opening with PYLON solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,100 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
948
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
LNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
21%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

PYLON can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

566 answers
244 answers
216 answers
177 answers
142 answers
84 answers
77 answers
64 answers
54 answers
52 answers
52 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
35 answers
34 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3Y4L1O1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRACE RAISE TORSE TIARE TARSE STARE

Strategy after playing PYLON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PYLON:

24% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
TRACE 6.41 bits
10.3% →
RAISE 5.32 bits
9.1% →
TORSE 5.45 bits
7.5% →
TIARE 5.53 bits
6.0% →
TARSE 5.18 bits
3.5% →
STARE 5.65 bits
3.2% →
STOAE 4.35 bits
2.7% →
TRIDE 4.38 bits
2.3% →
TASER 4.54 bits
2.2% →
REAST 4.59 bits

Research on PYLON

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

Optimal play

Opening with PYLON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,096 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 PYLON can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 PYLAHN.

Rhymes with NYLON

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PYLON is a kind of tower or construction.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PYLON 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.

In a sentence

The pylon was about to collapse.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (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).