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

FEZZY

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

No dictionary definition for FEZZY is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 75.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 FEZZY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEZZY 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 63.9% of games, misses completely in 36.1%, and leaves about 571 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,804 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.06 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 FEZZY 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.

2.72 Entropy (bits)
571 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.9% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FEZZY 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.

4.06 Avg guesses
99.53% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,804 Rank among openers
Opening with FEZZY left 11 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 4.06 average. It ranks #14,804 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
442
4 guesses
1,284
5 guesses
544
6 guesses
47
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
29%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

FEZZY can come back 38 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

858 answers
714 answers
261 answers
174 answers
61 answers
42 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
27 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1Z10Z10Y4
Total: 29 points

Words With Friends

Total: 28 points

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

Strategy after playing FEZZY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEZZY:

36% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
30% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.1%
ROAST 5.96 bits
30.1%
ARISE 5.25 bits
11.0%
SOLAR 4.75 bits
7.3%
SLART 4.79 bits
2.6%
SONAR 4.67 bits
1.8%
SLART 3.99 bits
1.5%
COAST 4.23 bits
1.4%
ROYAL 4.31 bits
1.4%
RAILE 4.20 bits
1.1%
TONER 3.61 bits

Research on FEZZY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FEZZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.06 guesses and ranks #14,820 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 FEZZY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.06, at or below the proven-optimal 4.06, 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 FEHZEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.