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

AZIDE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪzaɪd/

Noun

the univalent N₃ radical or functional group or any ester containing this group

Noun

the N₃⁻ anion or any salt containing this anion (^-N=\overset{+}N=N^-)

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 AZIDE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZIDE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,401 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__D_ A in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _Z__E Z in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AZIDE 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZIDE 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,401 Rank among openers
Opening with AZIDE left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,401 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
732
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
17
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
32%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

AZIDE can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

355 answers
322 answers
265 answers
148 answers
139 answers
138 answers
116 answers
105 answers
65 answers
63 answers
52 answers
52 answers
50 answers
49 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10I1D2E1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

SLOTH SLART SETER METAL SOREL SONLY

Strategy after playing AZIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZIDE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
SLOTH 5.66 bits
13.6% →
SLART 5.19 bits
11.2% →
SETER 5.53 bits
6.2% →
METAL 4.59 bits
5.9% →
SOREL 4.63 bits
5.8% →
SONLY 4.73 bits
4.9% →
SLANT 4.59 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.64 bits
2.7% →
RIPEN 4.51 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.65 bits

Research on AZIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,468 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AZIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 second syllable Say it UHZYD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AZIDE is a kind of compound.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AZIDE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).