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

VIZOR

VIZOR 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

Noun

Archaic spelling of visor.

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 VIZOR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIZOR 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 295 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,165 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

V___R V in the 1st position and R in the 5th position V__O_ V in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe VIZOR 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
295 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VIZOR 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,165 Rank among openers
Opening with VIZOR left 4 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,165 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
714
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
17
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:
IOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

VIZOR can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

647 answers
297 answers
268 answers
247 answers
134 answers
112 answers
104 answers
89 answers
59 answers
37 answers
35 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1Z10O1R1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Try next

SLATE TRACE SLANE ATONE PLATE TRIPE

Strategy after playing VIZOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIZOR:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
SLATE 6.36 bits
12.5% →
TRACE 5.57 bits
11.3% →
SLATE 5.13 bits
10.4% →
SLANE 5.58 bits
5.6% →
ATONE 4.36 bits
4.7% →
PLATE 4.24 bits
4.4% →
TRIPE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
SAULT 4.26 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
1.6% →
POINT 4.12 bits

Research on VIZOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with VIZOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,194 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with VIZOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 VEEZUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VIZOR is a kind of scale or brim.

Synonyms bill peak

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VIZOR 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).