5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SALON

SALON is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsælɒn//səˈlɑn//səˈlɔn/

Noun

A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.

Noun

A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.

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

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 SALON performs as a guess

SALON 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #171 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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.

S___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRIED TRUCE TRACE DRICE TRICE PEART
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.34 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SALON 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#171 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SALON ranks #171 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,055
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALNOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SALON in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

305
174
155
128
122
115
99
79
78
69
59
52
42
38
36
35
35
35
35
35
34
32
32
25
25
24
19
18
18
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SALON:

13% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
7% chance
Suggested:
TRUCE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
TRIED 6.05 bits
7.4% →
TRUCE 5.32 bits
6.6% →
TRACE 5.70 bits
5.4% →
DRICE 5.11 bits
5.2% →
TRICE 5.20 bits
4.9% →
TRICE 4.63 bits
4.2% →
PEART 4.79 bits
3.4% →
TRIPE 4.99 bits
3.3% →
HEIST 4.91 bits
2.9% →
PEART 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1L1O1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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