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FRIZZ

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹɪz/

Verb

Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.

Verb

To curl; to make frizzy.

Noun

A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

Alternative forms: friz

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 FRIZZ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FRIZZ 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 60.0% of games, misses completely in 40.0%, and leaves about 511 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,436 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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.

F__Z_ F in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _R__Z R in the 2nd position and Z in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FRIZZ 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.

3.01 Entropy (bits)
511 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRIZZ 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#14,436 Rank among openers
Opening with FRIZZ left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.95 average. It ranks #14,436 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
538
4 guesses
1,344
5 guesses
423
6 guesses
20
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:
IR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
25%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

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

949 answers
421 answers
254 answers
170 answers
162 answers
85 answers
53 answers
50 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1I1Z10Z10
Total: 26 points

Words With Friends

Total: 26 points

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

Try next

SLATE TERRA SIENT CANOE SLANE RIDER

Strategy after playing FRIZZ

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRIZZ:

40% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
18% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
11% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.0% →
SLATE 6.25 bits
17.7% →
TERRA 5.29 bits
10.7% →
SIENT 4.97 bits
7.2% →
CANOE 4.87 bits
6.8% →
SLANE 5.23 bits
3.6% →
RIDER 4.36 bits
2.2% →
SLANE 4.84 bits
2.1% →
CONTE 3.76 bits
1.3% →
OLATE 4.44 bits
1.0% →
LOOEY 3.80 bits

Research on FRIZZ

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRIZZ, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,659 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.14 guesses at best and is rank #7,267 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95, at or below the proven-optimal 3.99, 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

One syllable Say it FRIHZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FRIZZ is a kind of status or wave.

Synonyms kink

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FRIZZ sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).