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

GAZAR

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A silk organza, a lightweight fabric with a plain weave.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use GAZAR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How GAZAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GAZAR 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 68.0% of games, misses completely in 32.0%, and leaves about 353 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe GAZAR 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.

3.70 Entropy (bits)
353 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GAZAR 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,635 Rank among openers
Opening with GAZAR left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,635 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
641
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
383
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

GAZAR can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

764 answers
337 answers
253 answers
161 answers
132 answers
116 answers
96 answers
70 answers
44 answers
43 answers
37 answers
35 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2A1Z10A1R1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing GAZAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GAZAR:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.0% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
14.1% →
TOISE 5.60 bits
10.6% →
SLATE 5.56 bits
6.8% →
SCOTE 4.67 bits
5.5% →
TOILE 3.88 bits
4.9% →
TRACE 4.61 bits
4.0% →
TUILE 4.82 bits
2.9% →
CLOTE 4.61 bits
1.8% →
POREY 3.75 bits
1.8% →
SOLDE 4.72 bits

Research on GAZAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with GAZAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,800 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 GAZAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).