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

TOAZE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Alternative form of tose.

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 TOAZE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOAZE 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 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 114 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,478 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 TOAZE 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
114 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOAZE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,478 Rank among openers
Opening with TOAZE left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,478 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
42%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

TOAZE can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

265 answers
234 answers
165 answers
130 answers
127 answers
121 answers
109 answers
99 answers
96 answers
88 answers
67 answers
66 answers
60 answers
54 answers
48 answers
48 answers
45 answers
40 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1A1Z10E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing TOAZE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOAZE:

11% chance
Suggested:
SLIMY
10% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2%
SLIMY 5.53 bits
9.9%
SLIER 5.27 bits
7.0%
RAINY 4.77 bits
5.5%
SIREN 4.54 bits
5.3%
SCORN 4.77 bits
5.1%
SNARL 4.29 bits
4.6%
RENAL 4.59 bits
4.2%
MOLDY 3.90 bits
4.0%
SHIRT 4.82 bits
3.7%
RESET 4.76 bits

Research on TOAZE

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOAZE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,844 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,248 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.75. 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

One syllable Say it TOHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.