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

AZINE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R₂C=NN=CR₂, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine.

Noun

Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing a nitrogen atom as part of the ring structure, particularly those with six-membered aromatic rings (e.g., pyridine) or fused-ring systems.

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 AZINE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZINE 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,995 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe AZINE 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.

4.73 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZINE 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,995 Rank among openers
Opening with AZINE left 4 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 3.76 average. It ranks #9,995 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
763
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
18
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:
AEIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
35%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

AZINE can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

318 answers
278 answers
253 answers
142 answers
130 answers
127 answers
107 answers
84 answers
61 answers
56 answers
55 answers
54 answers
54 answers
49 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
38 answers
38 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10I1N1E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing AZINE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZINE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SETER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4%
SURLY 5.60 bits
11.7%
SLART 5.21 bits
10.7%
SETER 5.49 bits
6.0%
METAL 4.66 bits
5.5%
ROUSE 4.64 bits
5.3%
SPLIT 4.73 bits
4.5%
SLART 4.61 bits
3.5%
SLART 4.56 bits
2.6%
TWEEN 4.26 bits
2.4%
SONAR 4.24 bits

Research on AZINE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZINE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,597 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 AZINE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, 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 second syllable Say it UHZEEN. 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.