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

SIZED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.

“A badly-sized pair of shoes.”

Verb

simple past and past participle of size

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

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SYZD.

Rhymes with WISED

Related meanings

Synonyms size sorted

In a sentence

They have a king-sized bed.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have a medium-sized house.
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SIZED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% 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 SIZED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIZED 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,235 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 SIZED 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIZED 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#10,235 Rank among openers
Opening with SIZED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,235 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,300
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
38%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

SIZED can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
324 answers
175 answers
175 answers
154 answers
99 answers
80 answers
78 answers
77 answers
76 answers
72 answers
72 answers
50 answers
35 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1Z10E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing SIZED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIZED:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
CAROL 6.01 bits
13.6% →
LEARE 5.50 bits
7.3% →
OATER 4.28 bits
7.3% →
CAIRN 5.39 bits
6.5% →
ROAST 4.55 bits
4.2% →
TRASH 4.97 bits
3.4% →
ROUTE 4.44 bits
3.3% →
SHALT 3.80 bits
3.2% →
PARTE 4.55 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 4.56 bits

Research on SIZED

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

Optimal play

Opening with SIZED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,454 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 SIZED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SIZED sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 19 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.9 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).