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FEEZE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fiːz/

Noun

A state of worry or alarm.

Noun

A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.

Verb

To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.

Verb

To beat; to chastise.

Alternative forms: fease, feaze, feese, pheese

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

Etymology

From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize (“screw”, noun), from Dutch vijs (“screw”), from Middle Dutch vise (“screw, windlass, winch”), from Old French vis, viz (“vise, vice”), from Latin vītis (“vine”). Doublet of vice, vise, and withe.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use FEEZE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 72.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with FEEZE Open Word Finder

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 FEEZE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEEZE 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 51.5% of games, misses completely in 48.5%, and leaves about 649 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,786 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__Z_ F in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position FE_ZE F in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, Z in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FEEZE 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.

2.84 Entropy (bits)
649 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
72.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEEZE 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
99.75% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,786 Rank among openers
Opening with FEEZE left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 4.05 average. It ranks #14,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
500
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
573
6 guesses
39

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
38%
All gray
48%

Feedback distribution

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

1156 answers
321 answers
250 answers
148 answers
97 answers
80 answers
44 answers
44 answers
35 answers
23 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1E1Z10E1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SLART STIFF SARGE TALER

Strategy after playing FEEZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEEZE:

48% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.5% →
ROAST 5.82 bits
13.5% →
ROAST 5.05 bits
10.5% →
SOLAR 4.74 bits
6.2% →
SLART 4.81 bits
4.1% →
SLART 5.09 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.78 bits
1.8% →
SLART 3.91 bits
1.8% →
STIFF 4.49 bits
1.5% →
SARGE 3.56 bits
1.0% →
TALER 3.33 bits

Research on FEEZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FEEZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.04 guesses and ranks #14,790 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.27 guesses at best and is rank #7,439 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.05, at or below the proven-optimal 4.04, 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).