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

LEZZO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A lesbian.

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

Etymology

Shortened alteration of lesbian, + -o.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use LEZZO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% 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 LEZZO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEZZO 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 315 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.98 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 LEZZO 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.

3.43 Entropy (bits)
315 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEZZO 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.

3.98 Avg guesses
99.66% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,621 Rank among openers
Opening with LEZZO left 8 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.98 average. It ranks #14,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
513
4 guesses
1,301
5 guesses
452
6 guesses
44

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
17%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

LEZZO can come back 46 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

554 answers
453 answers
313 answers
230 answers
164 answers
155 answers
148 answers
98 answers
41 answers
41 answers
30 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
15 answers
9 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1Z10Z10O1
Total: 23 points

Words With Friends

Total: 24 points

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

Strategy after playing LEZZO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEZZO:

23% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
19% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
13% chance
Suggested:
THORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
SAINT 6.15 bits
19.0% →
STAIR 5.52 bits
13.1% →
THORN 5.12 bits
9.6% →
SAINT 5.14 bits
6.9% →
REATE 4.58 bits
6.5% →
SLATE 4.59 bits
6.2% →
TORSE 4.55 bits
4.1% →
ALLOT 4.31 bits
1.7% →
RATIO 4.21 bits
1.7% →
DEARE 3.59 bits

Research on LEZZO

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEZZO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,565 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 #7,211 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.98; proven optimal play reaches 3.97. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).