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

TOUZY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of tousy.

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 TOUZY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TOUZY 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 297 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,548 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe TOUZY 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
297 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TOUZY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,548 Rank among openers
Opening with TOUZY left 3 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,548 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
698
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
329
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
2 vowels
Common:
OTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
35%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

TOUZY can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

703 answers
256 answers
241 answers
160 answers
130 answers
113 answers
77 answers
77 answers
70 answers
54 answers
53 answers
43 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1O1U1Z10Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing TOUZY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TOUZY:

30% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
REAST
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6%
RAILE 6.11 bits
10.8%
REAST 5.62 bits
10.2%
CRANE 5.42 bits
6.7%
PARLE 4.91 bits
5.5%
SLIER 5.16 bits
4.8%
RANCE 4.68 bits
3.2%
SLANE 4.58 bits
3.2%
RAINE 5.00 bits
2.9%
SILER 4.36 bits
2.3%
DROLE 3.73 bits

Research on TOUZY

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

Optimal play

Opening with TOUZY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,494 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,260 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 TOOZEE. 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.