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

BEZZY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛzi/

Noun

best friend

Adjective

best

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

Use BEZZY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 77.2% 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 BEZZY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BEZZY 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 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 544 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,785 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.05 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 BEZZY 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.

2.82 Entropy (bits)
544 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BEZZY 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.

4.05 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,785 Rank among openers
Opening with BEZZY left 4 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 4.05 average. It ranks #14,785 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
454
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
529
6 guesses
45

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
30%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

BEZZY can come back 41 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

837 answers
697 answers
263 answers
163 answers
76 answers
44 answers
43 answers
43 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
10 answers
8 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3E1Z10Z10Y4
Total: 28 points

Words With Friends

Total: 28 points

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

Strategy after playing BEZZY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BEZZY:

35% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
29% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
29.2% →
ARISE 5.28 bits
11.0% →
SORAL 4.74 bits
6.8% →
REATE 4.51 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
1.8% →
RAILE 4.40 bits
1.8% →
SLART 4.10 bits
1.8% →
CUBIT 4.69 bits
1.3% →
LYNCH 4.26 bits
1.2% →
OLATE 4.09 bits

Research on BEZZY

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

Optimal play

Opening with BEZZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.03 guesses and ranks #14,754 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 BEZZY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.05; proven optimal play reaches 4.03. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).