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.

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

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

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 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 351 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)
351 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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
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:
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:

759 answers
335 answers
253 answers
161 answers
132 answers
116 answers
96 answers
69 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 5.59 bits
10.7%
SLATE 5.56 bits
6.8%
SCOTE 4.67 bits
5.6%
TOILE 3.88 bits
4.9%
TRACE 4.61 bits
4.0%
TUILE 4.82 bits
2.9%
CLOTE 4.60 bits
1.9%
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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it GAHZAHR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.