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

AZYGY

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

No dictionary definition for AZYGY is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use AZYGY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 75.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How AZYGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZYGY 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 58.5% of games, misses completely in 41.5%, and leaves about 583 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.01 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe AZYGY 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.

2.81 Entropy (bits)
583 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZYGY 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.

4.01 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,710 Rank among openers
Opening with AZYGY left 5 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 4.01 average. It ranks #14,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
17
3 guesses
486
4 guesses
1,330
5 guesses
479
6 guesses
37

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
25%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

AZYGY can come back 37 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

990 answers
569 answers
208 answers
113 answers
107 answers
100 answers
58 answers
48 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10Y4G2Y4
Total: 21 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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

Strategy after playing AZYGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZYGY:

42% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
24% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.5% →
TOISE 6.04 bits
23.9% →
CRATE 5.51 bits
8.7% →
SILER 4.52 bits
4.7% →
TOILE 5.20 bits
4.5% →
DROLE 4.94 bits
4.2% →
SLART 4.21 bits
2.4% →
GRONE 4.58 bits
2.0% →
DOREE 4.20 bits
0.8% →
CLONE 4.04 bits
0.8% →
PLIER 4.04 bits

Research on AZYGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZYGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.03 guesses and ranks #14,750 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.19 guesses at best and is rank #7,372 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.01, at or below the proven-optimal 4.03, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).