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

CEAZE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete form of seize.

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

Use CEAZE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% 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 CEAZE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CEAZE 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 76.3% of games, misses completely in 23.7%, and leaves about 230 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,847 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 CEAZE 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.

4.25 Entropy (bits)
230 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CEAZE 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,847 Rank among openers
Opening with CEAZE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,847 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
312
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
41%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

CEAZE can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

564 answers
296 answers
218 answers
159 answers
135 answers
105 answers
94 answers
80 answers
67 answers
65 answers
58 answers
46 answers
43 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1A1Z10E1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing CEAZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CEAZE:

24% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.7% →
SOILY 5.64 bits
12.4% →
TALON 5.21 bits
9.1% →
SOLER 4.85 bits
6.7% →
GRISE 4.38 bits
5.7% →
SLART 4.70 bits
4.4% →
ALTER 4.65 bits
3.9% →
TOUCH 4.64 bits
3.4% →
REMIT 4.27 bits
2.8% →
SOILY 4.30 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.20 bits

Research on CEAZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CEAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,306 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 CEAZE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

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