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

SIZER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

Noun

An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

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 SIZER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIZER 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

S___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position SI_ER S in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SIZER 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.

4.77 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIZER 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
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,474 Rank among openers
Opening with SIZER left 3 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
23
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:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
37%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SIZER can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
251 answers
199 answers
144 answers
142 answers
124 answers
93 answers
86 answers
81 answers
70 answers
69 answers
66 answers
64 answers
60 answers
45 answers
38 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1Z10E1R1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

COALY DEALT ARROW CRATE ANTIC SLANT

Strategy after playing SIZER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIZER:

15% chance
Suggested:
COALY
11% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
8% chance
Suggested:
ARROW

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
COALY 5.69 bits
10.6% →
DEALT 5.50 bits
8.4% →
ARROW 4.63 bits
6.1% →
CRATE 4.79 bits
6.0% →
ANTIC 5.16 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 4.54 bits
3.9% →
OLATE 3.30 bits
3.6% →
EATEN 4.26 bits
3.4% →
FILTH 3.83 bits
2.9% →
LASSO 4.64 bits

Research on SIZER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SIZER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,404 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 SIZER 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SYZUR.

Rhymes with WISER VISOR RISER MISER PIZER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SIZER is a kind of magnitude or property.

Synonyms sizing SIZED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SIZER 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).