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

FROYO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of fro-yo.

“I love that froyo tastes like ice cream and gelato, but is healthier.”

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 FROYO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FROYO 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 67.6% of games, misses completely in 32.4%, and leaves about 343 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,458 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FROYO 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.

3.78 Entropy (bits)
343 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FROYO 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#12,458 Rank among openers
Opening with FROYO 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,458 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
692
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
26%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

FROYO can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

768 answers
298 answers
213 answers
173 answers
159 answers
98 answers
89 answers
69 answers
51 answers
51 answers
43 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1Y4O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing FROYO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FROYO:

32% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.4%
SLANE 6.32 bits
12.6%
SALET 5.40 bits
9.0%
SAULT 4.77 bits
7.3%
CONTE 5.10 bits
6.7%
CADET 5.01 bits
4.1%
SATEM 4.28 bits
3.7%
STALE 4.86 bits
2.9%
TARRE 4.44 bits
2.1%
SOLDE 4.06 bits
2.1%
LIANE 4.76 bits

Research on FROYO

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

Optimal play

Opening with FROYO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,225 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,448 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 FROYOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FROYO 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).