FRITZ
Yes, FRITZ was the Wordle answer on September 27, 2025 (Wordle #1561).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /fɹɪts/
- Noun
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The state of being defective.
- Noun
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A type of processed meat sausage; devon
- Verb
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To go wrong or become defective.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Unknown. See on the fritz, which appeared in 1902. Possibly from German name Fritz, or onomatopoeia.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it FRIHTS.
Rhymes with SHITS BLITZ BRITS QUITS SPITS
In a sentence
Fritz called to say he won't come.
My dad's name is Fritz.
Use FRITZ in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 27, 2025 (#1561).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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FRITZ appeared in SNACK BRANDS PLUS STARTING LETTER (purple group).
How FRITZ performs as a guess
FRITZ is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 283 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,701 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FRITZ 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How FRITZ 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches FRITZ in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FRITZ can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for FRITZ; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing FRITZ
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FRITZ.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FRITZ:
Research on FRITZ
Game-tree analysis and word research for FRITZ, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FRITZ, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,119 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,667 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- FRITZ 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.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).