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

RAZEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.

Verb

To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.

Verb

To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.

“to razee a book, or an article”

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 RAZEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAZEE 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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 RAZEE 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAZEE 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,265 Rank among openers
Opening with RAZEE 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 3.86 average. It ranks #13,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
642
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
353
6 guesses
27
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
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
43%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

RAZEE can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

495 answers
216 answers
208 answers
147 answers
132 answers
128 answers
118 answers
90 answers
81 answers
67 answers
66 answers
60 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
31 answers
26 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1Z10E1E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing RAZEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAZEE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9%
SOILY 5.69 bits
9.1%
SLANT 5.34 bits
8.8%
COURT 5.11 bits
6.2%
SONLY 4.54 bits
5.6%
TRAIN 4.23 bits
5.4%
SOILY 4.71 bits
5.0%
HEIST 4.83 bits
3.8%
SOILY 3.72 bits
3.4%
DEALT 4.72 bits
2.8%
SLANT 4.30 bits

Research on RAZEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAZEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,401 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 RAZEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86; proven optimal play reaches 3.82. 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it RAYZEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RAZEE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).