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

VASAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Relating to a vessel (of the body).

Noun

Alternative spelling of vassal.

Verb

Alternative spelling of vassal.

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 VASAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VASAL 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 294 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,488 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

V___L V in the 1st position and L in the 5th position V__A_ V in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in VASAL.

First-turn measures

All four describe VASAL 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.

4.05 Entropy (bits)
294 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VASAL 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,488 Rank among openers
Opening with VASAL left 2 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,488 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
299
6 guesses
18
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
27%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

VASAL can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

695 answers
267 answers
225 answers
183 answers
159 answers
98 answers
80 answers
57 answers
46 answers
46 answers
46 answers
40 answers
36 answers
33 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4A1S1A1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TRONE TOILE RONTE PEART FLANE SLIPE

Strategy after playing VASAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VASAL:

29% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
TRONE 6.11 bits
11.2% →
TRONE 5.52 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
7.7% →
TRONE 5.41 bits
6.7% →
RONTE 4.88 bits
4.1% →
PEART 4.52 bits
3.4% →
FLANE 4.33 bits
2.4% →
SLIPE 4.55 bits
1.9% →
WRITE 4.11 bits
1.9% →
TRODE 4.40 bits

Research on VASAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with VASAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,953 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,438 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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 VAYSUHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VASAL 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).