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

PZAZZ

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of pizzazz.

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

Use PZAZZ in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 68.0% 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 PZAZZ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PZAZZ 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 49.7% of games, misses completely in 50.3%, and leaves about 762 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,845 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.14 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PZAZZ 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.

2.23 Entropy (bits)
762 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
68.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PZAZZ 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.

4.14 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,845 Rank among openers
Opening with PZAZZ left 6 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 4.14 average. It ranks #14,845 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
16
3 guesses
374
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
632
6 guesses
47

Composition

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
19%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

PZAZZ can come back 25 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1198 answers
531 answers
261 answers
139 answers
93 answers
43 answers
36 answers
28 answers
16 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3Z10A1Z10Z10
Total: 34 points

Words With Friends

Total: 35 points

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

Strategy after playing PZAZZ

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PZAZZ:

50% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
22% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.3% →
TOILE 5.95 bits
22.3% →
TALER 5.46 bits
10.9% →
STIRE 5.10 bits
5.8% →
SLIER 5.33 bits
3.9% →
NOISE 4.98 bits
1.8% →
RATEL 4.36 bits
1.5% →
RATEL 4.26 bits
1.2% →
CROME 3.90 bits
0.7% →
CLINE 3.75 bits
0.3% →
BAILE 2.58 bits

Research on PZAZZ

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

Optimal play

Opening with PZAZZ, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.13 guesses and ranks #14,843 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.30 guesses at best and is rank #7,446 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.14; proven optimal play reaches 4.13. 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).