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TOXIN

Yes, TOXIN was the Wordle answer on March 16, 2024 (Wordle #1001).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɒksɪn//ˈtɑksɪn/

Noun

A toxic substance, specifically a poison produced by the biological processes of organisms.

Noun

Synonym of toxicant: a toxic substance in a body requiring removal.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 16, 2024 (#1001).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 16, 2024 (#1001).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How TOXIN performs as a guess

TOXIN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,115 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__I_ T in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TOXIN 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOXIN 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,115 Rank among openers
Opening with TOXIN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,115 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
813
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
T O X I N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TOXIN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TOXIN can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

604 answers
213 answers
208 answers
165 answers
151 answers
138 answers
81 answers
72 answers
63 answers
58 answers
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39 answers
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32 answers
25 answers
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15 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1X8I1N1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

CARLE SERAL SLIER SACRE SAYNE HEIST

Strategy after playing TOXIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOXIN:

25% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SERAL
9% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
9.0% →
SERAL 5.66 bits
8.8% →
SLIER 5.32 bits
7.0% →
SACRE 5.21 bits
6.4% →
CARLE 4.70 bits
5.8% →
CARLE 5.18 bits
3.4% →
SAYNE 4.22 bits
3.0% →
HEIST 4.28 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.30 bits
2.4% →
CARLE 4.85 bits

Research on TOXIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOXIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,589 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,277 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 TAHKSUHN.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TOXIN is a kind of poison.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TOXIN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 49 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

The neurological system is compromised by this toxin.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (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); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).