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

TAZZA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A shallow saucer-like dish, mounted either on a stem and foot or on a foot alone.

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 TAZZA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TAZZA 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 57.5% of games, misses completely in 42.5%, and leaves about 560 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,778 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.04 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 TAZZA 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.

2.82 Entropy (bits)
560 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.4% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TAZZA 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.

4.04 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,778 Rank among openers
Opening with TAZZA left 4 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 4.04 average. It ranks #14,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
458
4 guesses
1,310
5 guesses
515
6 guesses
45
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
22%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

TAZZA can come back 38 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1009 answers
378 answers
319 answers
185 answers
124 answers
95 answers
64 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1A1Z10Z10A1
Total: 23 points

Words With Friends

Total: 23 points

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

Strategy after playing TAZZA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TAZZA:

43% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.5%
RIONE 5.93 bits
15.9%
SLANE 5.43 bits
13.4%
ROUET 5.39 bits
7.8%
SLYER 4.90 bits
5.2%
LEAST 5.01 bits
4.0%
SHORE 4.94 bits
2.7%
CRUSE 3.93 bits
1.2%
MOIRE 4.35 bits
1.2%
CRINE 3.87 bits
1.0%
RONTE 3.45 bits

Research on TAZZA

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

Optimal play

Opening with TAZZA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.05 guesses and ranks #14,805 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 TAZZA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.04, at or below the proven-optimal 4.05, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it TAZUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TAZZA 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).