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

TOMOZ

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Clipping of tomorrow.

Adverb

Clipping of tomorrow.

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 TOMOZ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOMOZ 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 58.4% of games, misses completely in 41.6%, and leaves about 504 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,675 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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 TOMOZ 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.

3.29 Entropy (bits)
504 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOMOZ 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,675 Rank among openers
Opening with TOMOZ left 2 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 3.88 average. It ranks #13,675 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
652
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
366
6 guesses
32
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
24%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

TOMOZ can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

987 answers
356 answers
174 answers
149 answers
139 answers
102 answers
63 answers
52 answers
33 answers
33 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1M3O1Z10
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing TOMOZ

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOMOZ:

42% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
15% chance
Suggested:
REAST
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

41.6%
RAILE 6.21 bits
15.0%
REAST 5.54 bits
7.3%
CRANE 5.43 bits
6.3%
SLYER 4.66 bits
5.9%
CARLE 5.55 bits
4.3%
RAINE 5.22 bits
2.7%
REAST 4.32 bits
2.2%
SANER 4.60 bits
1.4%
LAIRY 4.00 bits
1.4%
SHIRE 3.75 bits

Research on TOMOZ

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOMOZ, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,908 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,660 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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 TOHMUHZ. 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.