Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

AZANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of azan

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 AZANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZANS 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,682 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AZANS 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZANS 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,682 Rank among openers
Opening with AZANS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,682 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
631
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
355
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
26%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

AZANS can come back 54 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

743 answers
294 answers
273 answers
191 answers
127 answers
92 answers
90 answers
75 answers
70 answers
64 answers
45 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10A1N1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing AZANS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZANS:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3%
TOILE 6.01 bits
12.4%
ROUET 5.47 bits
11.5%
TALER 5.47 bits
8.0%
LINER 5.09 bits
5.3%
TRICE 5.15 bits
3.9%
SHITE 4.15 bits
3.8%
GOIER 4.75 bits
3.2%
TALER 4.63 bits
2.9%
CANOE 4.33 bits
2.7%
DROLE 4.95 bits

Research on AZANS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZANS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,592 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,638 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 AYZUHNZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.