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

COLZA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil, valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes.

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

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How COLZA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts COLZA 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,540 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___A C in the 1st position and A in the 5th position C__Z_ C in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in COLZA.

First-turn measures

All four describe COLZA 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)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COLZA 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,540 Rank among openers
Opening with COLZA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,540 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
817
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

COLZA can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

511 answers
371 answers
186 answers
170 answers
168 answers
149 answers
86 answers
63 answers
60 answers
48 answers
47 answers
43 answers
40 answers
33 answers
33 answers
28 answers
25 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1L1Z10A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

SIREN TARSE TRINE SLIER STANE STURE

Strategy after playing COLZA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COLZA:

22% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
SIREN 6.11 bits
15.6% →
TARSE 5.69 bits
7.8% →
TRINE 5.51 bits
7.2% →
SLIER 5.13 bits
7.1% →
STANE 4.70 bits
6.3% →
STURE 4.68 bits
3.6% →
TRICE 5.08 bits
2.7% →
TARSE 4.64 bits
2.5% →
BARON 4.70 bits
2.0% →
TRIPE 4.71 bits

Research on COLZA

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

Optimal play

Opening with COLZA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,884 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,223 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KOHLZUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COLZA is a kind of mustard.

Synonyms rape

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COLZA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).