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

SOZIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of sozine.

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

Use SOZIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% 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 SOZIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOZIN 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,095 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 SOZIN 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOZIN 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,095 Rank among openers
Opening with SOZIN left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,095 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
29

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

SOZIN can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

579 answers
218 answers
172 answers
161 answers
160 answers
144 answers
133 answers
88 answers
80 answers
51 answers
51 answers
38 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1Z10I1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing SOZIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOZIN:

24% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
CARLE 6.21 bits
9.1% →
TRICE 5.36 bits
7.2% →
CRATE 5.24 bits
6.8% →
RATEL 4.77 bits
6.7% →
PLATE 5.34 bits
6.0% →
CADET 5.08 bits
5.6% →
PRATE 5.40 bits
3.7% →
TRICE 4.29 bits
3.4% →
RATEL 5.07 bits
2.1% →
THALE 4.11 bits

Research on SOZIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOZIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,895 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,525 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SOZIN 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).