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

BAZAS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of baza

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

Use BAZAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.4% 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 BAZAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BAZAS 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 444 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,266 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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 BAZAS 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.

3.34 Entropy (bits)
444 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BAZAS 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,266 Rank among openers
Opening with BAZAS left 2 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 3.92 average. It ranks #14,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
589
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
434
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
27%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

BAZAS can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

888 answers
359 answers
255 answers
188 answers
123 answers
97 answers
91 answers
49 answers
42 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3A1Z10A1S1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing BAZAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BAZAS:

37% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.2% →
RIONE 5.94 bits
15.1% →
TOILE 5.35 bits
10.7% →
ALERT 5.37 bits
7.9% →
TRICE 4.85 bits
5.2% →
THALE 4.47 bits
4.1% →
TOILE 5.14 bits
3.8% →
RATEL 4.47 bits
2.1% →
STOPE 3.98 bits
1.8% →
LOURE 4.80 bits
1.3% →
PORTE 3.84 bits

Research on BAZAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BAZAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,165 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #7,008 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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).