5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TAXON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtæksɒn//ˈtæksən//ˈtæksɑn/

Noun

A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms treated as a unit by taxonomists.

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 TAXON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAXON 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,505 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

T___N T in the 1st position and N in the 5th position T__O_ T 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

SLIER SCARE SOLER SHIER SLICE SILER
Words starting with T Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TAXON 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,505 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TAXON ranks #8,505 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
242
6 guesses
20
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:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
27%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
277
231
158
143
138
96
82
63
54
53
53
50
39
38
34
26
26
23
23
18
17
16
16
15
14
14
14
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAXON:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
12% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
SLIER 6.09 bits
11.7% →
SCARE 5.41 bits
9.8% →
SOLER 5.12 bits
6.7% →
SHIER 5.33 bits
6.1% →
SLICE 5.08 bits
5.9% →
SILER 4.75 bits
4.1% →
SERAL 4.94 bits
3.5% →
ROUSE 4.61 bits
2.7% →
SIRED 4.43 bits
2.3% →
CRUSE 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1X8O1N1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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