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

RAZED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of raze

Adjective

Slashed or striped in patterns.

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 RAZED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAZED 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,357 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position RA_ED R in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RAZED 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAZED 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,357 Rank among openers
Opening with RAZED left 4 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,357 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
31%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

RAZED can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

415 answers
240 answers
190 answers
179 answers
128 answers
126 answers
108 answers
106 answers
102 answers
81 answers
52 answers
51 answers
49 answers
39 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1Z10E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT COURT SONLY COAST

Strategy after playing RAZED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAZED:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
10.1% →
STILE 5.31 bits
8.0% →
SLANT 5.33 bits
7.5% →
COURT 5.19 bits
5.4% →
SLANT 5.13 bits
5.3% →
SONLY 4.59 bits
4.5% →
COAST 4.56 bits
4.5% →
TOISE 4.54 bits
4.3% →
TOISE 3.56 bits
3.4% →
TWEEN 4.25 bits

Research on RAZED

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAZED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,111 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 RAZED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it RAYZD.

Rhymes with DAZED GAZED FAZED

Related meanings

Synonyms demolished dismantled destroyed

Opposites preserved

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAZED 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).