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

ZHOMO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of dzomo.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ZHOMO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 72.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How ZHOMO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZHOMO 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 49.8% of games, misses completely in 50.2%, and leaves about 665 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,597 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.97 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe ZHOMO 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.

2.92 Entropy (bits)
665 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
72.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZHOMO 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.

3.97 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,597 Rank among openers
Opening with ZHOMO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.97 average. It ranks #14,597 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
563
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
466
6 guesses
42

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
20%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

ZHOMO can come back 48 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1197 answers
262 answers
153 answers
144 answers
131 answers
101 answers
50 answers
49 answers
43 answers
40 answers
31 answers
25 answers
23 answers
19 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10H4O1M3O1
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing ZHOMO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZHOMO:

50% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
6% chance
Suggested:
CASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.2% →
RAILE 6.19 bits
11.0% →
TALER 5.15 bits
6.4% →
CASTE 5.19 bits
6.0% →
SLANE 4.70 bits
5.5% →
RAILE 5.29 bits
4.2% →
CARSE 5.10 bits
2.1% →
PALER 4.61 bits
2.1% →
LATER 4.46 bits
1.8% →
CRUET 4.44 bits
1.7% →
SOLED 3.79 bits

Research on ZHOMO

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZHOMO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,575 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.11 guesses at best and is rank #7,169 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.97, at or below the proven-optimal 3.97, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).