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

AZYMS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of azym

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use AZYMS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% 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 AZYMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AZYMS 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 339 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,830 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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 AZYMS 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.

3.63 Entropy (bits)
339 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AZYMS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#12,830 Rank among openers
Opening with AZYMS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,830 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
317
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
12%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

AZYMS can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

699 answers
388 answers
287 answers
173 answers
153 answers
96 answers
85 answers
75 answers
57 answers
48 answers
30 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1Z10Y4M3S1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing AZYMS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AZYMS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
16% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
12% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
TRINE 6.22 bits
16.3% →
TRACE 5.52 bits
12.0% →
STIRE 5.45 bits
7.3% →
RIONE 4.75 bits
6.4% →
STALE 4.99 bits
4.0% →
DROLE 4.95 bits
3.6% →
ROUET 5.18 bits
3.1% →
TARDY 4.23 bits
2.4% →
CARNE 4.54 bits
2.0% →
SUITE 3.99 bits

Research on AZYMS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AZYMS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,225 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,013 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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).