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

AZURY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Somewhat azure in colour.

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 AZURY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZURY 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 79.6% of games, misses completely in 20.4%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,627 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AZURY 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.

4.09 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZURY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,627 Rank among openers
Opening with AZURY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,627 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
33
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:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

AZURY can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

484 answers
354 answers
300 answers
187 answers
131 answers
124 answers
85 answers
79 answers
78 answers
64 answers
48 answers
47 answers
39 answers
34 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10U1R1Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing AZURY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZURY:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4%
TOILE 6.08 bits
14.9%
SLICE 5.57 bits
12.6%
TOISE 5.24 bits
7.9%
CASTE 4.59 bits
5.5%
STOLE 4.65 bits
5.2%
CUTIE 5.16 bits
3.6%
CLONE 4.42 bits
3.3%
TOILE 4.70 bits
3.3%
SLANT 4.15 bits
2.7%
SURER 4.57 bits

Research on AZURY

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZURY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,710 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,400 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AZUREE. 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.