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

LEZES

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

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

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

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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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 LEZES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEZES 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 73.9% of games, misses completely in 26.1%, and leaves about 268 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,017 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe LEZES 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)
268 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEZES 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#13,017 Rank among openers
Opening with LEZES left 1 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 3.84 average. It ranks #13,017 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
669
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
331
6 guesses
18
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:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
27%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

LEZES can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

619 answers
263 answers
248 answers
227 answers
145 answers
123 answers
101 answers
89 answers
77 answers
42 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
22 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1Z10E1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing LEZES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEZES:

26% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
ALLOT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.1%
TRAIN 6.00 bits
11.1%
STAIR 5.25 bits
10.4%
ALLOT 5.00 bits
9.6%
ORATE 5.14 bits
6.1%
RAINY 4.31 bits
5.2%
STAIR 4.68 bits
4.3%
RAINY 4.57 bits
3.7%
BLATE 4.47 bits
3.2%
STALL 4.40 bits
1.8%
ARIEL 3.65 bits

Research on LEZES

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEZES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,696 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,144 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 LEHZIHZ. 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.