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DIZZY

Yes, DIZZY was the Wordle answer on February 27, 2026 (Wordle #1714).

As an opener, it rules out about 72.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪzi/

Adjective

Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.

“I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.”

Adjective

Producing giddiness.

“We climbed to a dizzy height.”

Verb

To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.

Noun

A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).

Alternative forms: dizzie

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 27, 2026 (#1714).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 27, 2026 (#1714).

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

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How DIZZY performs as a guess

DIZZY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 51.3% of games, misses completely in 48.7%, and leaves about 654 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,735 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.03 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

D___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__Z_ D in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DIZZY 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.

2.77 Entropy (bits)
654 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
72.4% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DIZZY 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.

4.03 Avg guesses
99.66% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,735 Rank among openers
Opening with DIZZY left 8 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 4.03 average. It ranks #14,735 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
491
4 guesses
1,286
5 guesses
499
6 guesses
49
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
51%
Green tile
26%
All gray
49%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
P O U N D
B I D D Y
D I Z Z Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DIZZY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

DIZZY can come back 40 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1156 answers
342 answers
229 answers
134 answers
127 answers
62 answers
52 answers
40 answers
40 answers
35 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1Z10Z10Y4
Total: 27 points

Words With Friends

Total: 26 points

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

Try next

TARSE STANE SORAL ALURE RONTE ARIEL

Strategy after playing DIZZY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DIZZY:

49% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
STANE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.7% →
TARSE 6.33 bits
14.4% →
STANE 5.39 bits
9.6% →
SORAL 4.85 bits
5.6% →
ALURE 5.42 bits
5.3% →
RONTE 4.86 bits
2.6% →
ARIEL 4.47 bits
2.2% →
LEANT 4.90 bits
1.7% →
LAYER 4.75 bits
1.7% →
CADRE 3.71 bits
1.5% →
SLANT 3.10 bits

Research on DIZZY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DIZZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,658 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 DIZZY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.03; proven optimal play reaches 3.99. 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DIHZEE.

Rhymes with TIZZY BIZZY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DIZZY is a kind of change.

Synonyms SILLY GIDDY sick ill frivolous

Opposites well serious

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DIZZY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I feel a little dizzy.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I'm just a little dizzy.
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).