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

VOZHD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Soviet leader.

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 VOZHD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VOZHD 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 55.9% of games, misses completely in 44.1%, and leaves about 544 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,832 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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 VOZHD 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.

3.13 Entropy (bits)
544 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOZHD 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#13,832 Rank among openers
Opening with VOZHD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,832 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
599
4 guesses
1,360
5 guesses
347
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
20%
All gray
44%

Feedback distribution

VOZHD can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1048 answers
261 answers
231 answers
169 answers
160 answers
71 answers
59 answers
45 answers
40 answers
39 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1Z10H4D2
Total: 21 points

Words With Friends

Total: 21 points

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

Strategy after playing VOZHD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOZHD:

44% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ARSON
10% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.1%
RAILE 6.12 bits
11.0%
ARSON 5.14 bits
9.7%
SAICE 5.47 bits
7.1%
SLYER 4.67 bits
6.7%
RAILE 5.50 bits
3.0%
ARIEL 4.84 bits
2.5%
LAREE 5.20 bits
1.9%
TARSE 4.41 bits
1.7%
CRUET 4.13 bits
1.6%
CRINE 4.35 bits

Research on VOZHD

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

Optimal play

Opening with VOZHD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,846 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 VOZHD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, 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

One syllable Say it VAHZD. 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.