FUZZY
Yes, FUZZY was the Wordle answer on February 28, 2025 (Wordle #1350).
As an opener, it rules out about 63.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌzi//ˈfʊzi//ˈfʌze/
- Adjective
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Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
- Adjective
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Vague or imprecise.
“My recollection of that event is fuzzy.”
- Noun
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A very small piece of plush material such as lint.
“You've got a fuzzy on your coat.”
- Noun
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Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: February 28, 2025 (#1350).
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See what the public sample says →How FUZZY performs as a guess
FUZZY 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 41.6% of games, misses completely in 58.4%, and leaves about 876 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,839 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.11 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FUZZY 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 FUZZY 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 FUZZY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FUZZY can come back 34 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 FUZZY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FUZZY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FUZZY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FUZZY:
Research on FUZZY
Game-tree analysis and word research for FUZZY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FUZZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.08 guesses and ranks #14,835 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.24 guesses at best and is rank #7,427 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 4.11; proven optimal play reaches 4.08. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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
- FUZZY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (4.1 of 5).
In a sentence
I feel all warm and fuzzy.
I love the fuzzy feeling I get when I help someone.
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).