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FROZE

Yes, FROZE was the Wordle answer on July 22, 2023 (Wordle #763).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹəʊz//ˈfɹoʊz/

Verb

simple past of freeze

Verb

past participle of freeze

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 22, 2023 (#763).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 22, 2023 (#763).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How FROZE performs as a guess

FROZE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,283 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___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 _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FROZE 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.

4.34 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FROZE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,283 Rank among openers
Opening with FROZE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,283 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
764
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
36%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
A B I D E
F R O Z E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FROZE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FROZE can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

498 answers
258 answers
209 answers
187 answers
183 answers
137 answers
88 answers
87 answers
84 answers
53 answers
45 answers
42 answers
42 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1Z10E1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLANT SAULT TONAL SALET STRAY

Strategy after playing FROZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FROZE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0% →
SAINT 6.03 bits
10.9% →
SLANT 5.51 bits
8.8% →
SAULT 5.33 bits
7.9% →
TONAL 4.92 bits
7.7% →
SALET 4.45 bits
5.8% →
STRAY 4.96 bits
3.7% →
SLANT 4.69 bits
3.7% →
SAINT 4.52 bits
3.5% →
CAROM 4.38 bits
2.2% →
LEMON 4.19 bits

Research on FROZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FROZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,793 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 FROZE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 FROHZ.

Rhymes with THOSE SHOWS KNOWS CHOSE GROWS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FROZE is a kind of cooling or conditions.

Synonyms BLOCK freezing FROST halt suspend

Opposites boil

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FROZE 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.

In a sentence

I think the game froze.
© tatoeba.org contributor Teangloir (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I froze for a moment.
© tatoeba.org contributor maaster (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).