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

LAWSY

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

No dictionary definition for LAWSY is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use LAWSY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% 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 LAWSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAWSY 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,922 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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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First-turn measures

All four describe LAWSY 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAWSY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,922 Rank among openers
Opening with LAWSY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,922 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

LAWSY can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

534 answers
226 answers
181 answers
172 answers
139 answers
129 answers
126 answers
76 answers
68 answers
49 answers
43 answers
42 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1W4S1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing LAWSY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAWSY:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
TRINE 6.26 bits
9.5% →
TRONE 5.59 bits
7.6% →
ROUET 5.38 bits
7.2% →
BOITE 5.08 bits
5.8% →
TIARE 4.48 bits
5.4% →
RIONE 4.64 bits
5.3% →
TONER 5.01 bits
3.2% →
PEART 4.75 bits
2.9% →
RUOTE 4.95 bits
2.1% →
TRONE 4.87 bits

Research on LAWSY

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAWSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,636 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,081 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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).