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

GLAZY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪzi/

Adjective

Having the appearance of a glaze; glazed.

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

Etymology

From glaze + -y. Compare glassy.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use GLAZY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% 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 GLAZY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLAZY 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 312 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 GLAZY 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GLAZY 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#11,108 Rank among openers
Opening with GLAZY left 2 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,294
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
37%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

GLAZY can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

733 answers
281 answers
168 answers
161 answers
160 answers
118 answers
96 answers
85 answers
68 answers
51 answers
41 answers
40 answers
40 answers
36 answers
29 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2L1A1Z10Y4
Total: 18 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing GLAZY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLAZY:

31% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
CATER
7% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
TOISE 6.16 bits
11.8% →
CATER 5.52 bits
7.0% →
STIRE 5.10 bits
6.8% →
SIREE 4.88 bits
6.7% →
SIRED 4.68 bits
4.9% →
RATEL 4.59 bits
4.0% →
SOUCE 4.78 bits
3.6% →
NOIRE 5.03 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 4.11 bits
2.1% →
ROULE 3.52 bits

Research on GLAZY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GLAZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,530 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,594 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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).