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

LAZAR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈleɪzə/

Noun

Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

Adjective

Synonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

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 LAZAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAZAR 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 269 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,223 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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.

L___R L in the 1st position and R in the 5th position L__A_ L in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAZAR 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.

3.98 Entropy (bits)
269 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAZAR 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,223 Rank among openers
Opening with LAZAR left 5 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,223 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
670
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
344
6 guesses
30
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:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
29%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

LAZAR can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

596 answers
344 answers
262 answers
166 answers
134 answers
118 answers
118 answers
104 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1Z10A1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

TOISE NOISE STANE CONTE TRACE SLANE

Strategy after playing LAZAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAZAR:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
14% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
TOISE 6.09 bits
14.5% →
TOISE 5.59 bits
11.0% →
NOISE 5.10 bits
7.0% →
STANE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
CONTE 4.81 bits
5.0% →
TOISE 3.95 bits
5.0% →
TRACE 4.59 bits
4.4% →
SLANE 4.40 bits
1.8% →
POREY 3.70 bits
1.8% →
FETAL 3.86 bits

Research on LAZAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAZAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,290 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 LAZAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 LAYZUR.

Rhymes with LASER RAZOR TASER MASER MAZER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAZAR is a kind of unfortunate.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAZAR 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).