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SABZI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /səbˈziː/

Noun

Any green vegetable.

Noun

The larger leaves and the seed capsules of Indian hemp which are used to make bhang.

Alternative forms: sabji, subji, subjee, subz

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 SABZI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SABZI 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 77.2% of games, misses completely in 22.8%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,277 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

S___I S in the 1st position and I in the 5th position S__Z_ S in the 1st position and Z in the 4th position _A__I A in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SABZI 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SABZI 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,277 Rank among openers
Opening with SABZI left 2 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,277 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
717
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
334
6 guesses
18
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:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
31%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

SABZI can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

542 answers
340 answers
300 answers
180 answers
157 answers
100 answers
99 answers
78 answers
77 answers
76 answers
47 answers
44 answers
39 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1B3Z10I1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

TONER TRINE ALERT THALE ROUTE TRONE

Strategy after playing SABZI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SABZI:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.8% →
TONER 5.93 bits
14.3% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
12.6% →
ALERT 5.58 bits
7.6% →
TONER 4.76 bits
6.6% →
TONER 5.02 bits
4.2% →
THALE 4.38 bits
4.2% →
ROUTE 5.25 bits
3.3% →
TRINE 4.29 bits
3.2% →
TRONE 5.04 bits
3.2% →
ANVIL 4.50 bits

Research on SABZI

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

Optimal play

Opening with SABZI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,838 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,885 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it SAHBEESEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SABZI 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).