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

SKEEZ

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

No dictionary definition for SKEEZ is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use SKEEZ in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% 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 SKEEZ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKEEZ 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 65.7% of games, misses completely in 34.3%, and leaves about 392 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,501 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SKEEZ 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.

3.54 Entropy (bits)
392 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKEEZ 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,501 Rank among openers
Opening with SKEEZ left 3 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 3.95 average. It ranks #14,501 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
562
4 guesses
1,298
5 guesses
439
6 guesses
30

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
33%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

SKEEZ can come back 49 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

817 answers
385 answers
193 answers
186 answers
138 answers
87 answers
66 answers
64 answers
52 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
27 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5E1E1Z10
Total: 18 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing SKEEZ

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKEEZ:

34% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.3% →
TALON 5.78 bits
16.1% →
RAILE 5.23 bits
8.1% →
RAINY 4.40 bits
7.8% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
5.8% →
ROAST 4.97 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 5.06 bits
2.8% →
ROUTE 4.15 bits
2.7% →
PARTE 4.03 bits
2.2% →
TREAD 4.67 bits
1.7% →
REATE 3.90 bits

Research on SKEEZ

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKEEZ, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,172 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 SKEEZ can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.95; proven optimal play reaches 3.92. 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
SKEEZ 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).