5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TOYON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A chiefly Californian ornamental evergreen shrub (Photinia arbutifolia, syn. Heteromeles arbutifolia) of the rose family having white flowers succeeded by red berries.

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 TOYON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOYON 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 276 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,362 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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 _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE REAST PARLE SAICE CRISE CARLE
Words starting with T Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
276 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TOYON 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,362 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TOYON ranks #9,362 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
27%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

676
269
184
183
127
96
77
61
58
55
49
45
37
34
32
29
24
24
21
18
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14
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11
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9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOYON:

29% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
11% chance
Suggested:
REAST
8% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.7% →
RAISE 6.18 bits
11.4% →
REAST 5.62 bits
7.8% →
PARLE 4.96 bits
7.8% →
SAICE 5.50 bits
5.4% →
CRISE 5.21 bits
4.1% →
CARLE 4.85 bits
3.3% →
PAIRE 5.14 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.81 bits
2.5% →
SALUE 4.51 bits
2.3% →
SLART 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1Y4O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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