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

TEAZE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete spelling of tease.

Noun

Obsolete spelling of tease.

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

Use TEAZE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% 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 TEAZE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TEAZE 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 TEAZE 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.

4.45 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TEAZE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,108 Rank among openers
Opening with TEAZE left 5 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 3.85 average. It ranks #13,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
659
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
339
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
39%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

TEAZE can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

494 answers
258 answers
185 answers
184 answers
154 answers
134 answers
85 answers
84 answers
64 answers
60 answers
56 answers
52 answers
47 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1A1Z10E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing TEAZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TEAZE:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
8% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SOILY 5.68 bits
10.8% →
CAROL 5.25 bits
7.8% →
OLDER 4.73 bits
7.7% →
HOIST 5.21 bits
6.5% →
NOIRE 4.50 bits
5.6% →
SNARL 4.27 bits
3.6% →
SAUCY 4.15 bits
3.5% →
PALER 4.22 bits
2.7% →
RAINY 3.98 bits
2.5% →
SABLE 3.69 bits

Research on TEAZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TEAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,605 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,720 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85; proven optimal play reaches 3.82. 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).