5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ZEALS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zeal

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 ZEALS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZEALS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,225 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

Z___S Z in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT TRODE CARAT SNOUT SPIRE TARGE
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZEALS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,225 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZEALS ranks #9,225 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

346
283
201
161
114
106
101
100
75
74
69
52
51
48
43
34
32
32
28
26
25
25
24
24
21
18
16
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZEALS:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
12% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
COUNT 5.84 bits
12.0% →
TRODE 5.25 bits
8.5% →
CARAT 4.97 bits
6.8% →
SNOUT 5.03 bits
4.8% →
SPIRE 4.81 bits
4.5% →
TARGE 4.57 bits
4.3% →
DETER 4.42 bits
4.2% →
CLOUT 4.55 bits
3.2% →
NOIRE 4.13 bits
3.1% →
TONAL 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10E1A1L1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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