5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SAYON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket.

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 SAYON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SAYON 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,938 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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

TRICE TRACE TRUCE LATER TRIPE PLATE
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.05 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAYON 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,938 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAYON ranks #2,938 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
18
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:
ANOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

351
238
185
116
110
107
103
81
65
56
54
51
51
47
46
45
44
41
33
33
28
27
24
23
23
23
19
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAYON:

15% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
TRICE 6.19 bits
10.1% →
TRACE 5.56 bits
7.8% →
TRUCE 5.49 bits
4.9% →
TRICE 5.29 bits
4.7% →
LATER 4.58 bits
4.5% →
TRIPE 4.20 bits
4.4% →
TRIPE 5.04 bits
3.4% →
PLATE 4.35 bits
2.8% →
CRUET 5.15 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1Y4O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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