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

RAZOO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹəˈzʉː/

Noun

A fictitious coin of very low value.

Noun

The smallest part or particle imaginable; a whit; a jot.

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

Use RAZOO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% 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 RAZOO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RAZOO 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 75.9% of games, misses completely in 24.1%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,994 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 RAZOO 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.

3.81 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RAZOO 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.66% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,994 Rank among openers
Opening with RAZOO 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 3.90 average. It ranks #13,994 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
605
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
395
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
23%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

RAZOO can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

574 answers
311 answers
284 answers
229 answers
187 answers
169 answers
136 answers
59 answers
58 answers
44 answers
30 answers
26 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1A1Z10O1O1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing RAZOO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RAZOO:

24% chance
Suggested:
STILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.1% →
STILE 6.08 bits
13.0% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
11.9% →
SEINE 5.11 bits
9.6% →
SHULE 5.06 bits
7.8% →
STILE 4.68 bits
7.1% →
TRACE 4.78 bits
5.7% →
STONE 4.62 bits
2.5% →
SPITE 3.68 bits
2.4% →
GLOAT 4.35 bits
1.8% →
SEINE 4.30 bits

Research on RAZOO

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

Optimal play

Opening with RAZOO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #13,922 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,820 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).