5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZEBUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zebu

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 ZEBUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZEBUS 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 75.2% of games, misses completely in 24.8%, and leaves about 296 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,291 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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

TRAIL ARIEL SLART PARTE TRULY LAIRY
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.75 Entropy (bits)
296 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZEBUS 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,291 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZEBUS ranks #13,291 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
627
4 guesses
1,329
5 guesses
339
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
16%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

585
439
243
179
162
160
70
66
64
45
30
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZEBUS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.8% →
TRAIL 5.92 bits
18.6% →
ARIEL 5.16 bits
10.3% →
SLART 5.15 bits
7.6% →
PARTE 4.82 bits
6.9% →
TRULY 4.57 bits
6.8% →
LAIRY 4.67 bits
3.0% →
TRUCE 4.51 bits
2.8% →
STUNK 4.20 bits
2.7% →
BARON 4.76 bits
1.9% →
IRADE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10E1B3U1S1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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