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IZZAT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Honour, pride; reputation.

Contraction

Contraction of is + that.

Alternative forms: izat, zat, 'zat

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 IZZAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts IZZAT 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 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 344 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,536 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

I___T I in the 1st position and T in the 5th position I__A_ I in the 1st position and A in the 4th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe IZZAT 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.

3.40 Entropy (bits)
344 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How IZZAT 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.70% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,536 Rank among openers
Opening with IZZAT left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.96 average. It ranks #14,536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
539
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
441
6 guesses
31
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:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
19%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

IZZAT can come back 42 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

653 answers
435 answers
337 answers
163 answers
123 answers
108 answers
91 answers
91 answers
85 answers
66 answers
64 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1Z10Z10A1T1
Total: 23 points

Words With Friends

Total: 23 points

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

Try next

SOLER SACRE RINSE SHOER TARTE SENOR

Strategy after playing IZZAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IZZAT:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
18% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
14% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
SOLER 5.94 bits
18.3% →
SACRE 5.29 bits
14.2% →
RINSE 5.29 bits
6.9% →
SHOER 5.55 bits
5.2% →
TARTE 4.84 bits
4.5% →
SENOR 4.76 bits
3.8% →
SOREL 5.14 bits
3.8% →
DRAIN 4.38 bits
3.6% →
TITHE 4.32 bits
2.8% →
SENOR 4.23 bits

Research on IZZAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with IZZAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,577 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.12 guesses at best and is rank #7,225 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.96, at or below the proven-optimal 3.97, 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 first syllable Say it IHZUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
IZZAT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).