5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZIGAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of tzigane.

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 ZIGAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZIGAN 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,618 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___N Z in the 1st position and N in the 5th position Z__A_ Z in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL TARSE CRISE ROUTE TALER STOLE
Words starting with Z Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.98 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZIGAN 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,618 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZIGAN ranks #12,618 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
690
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
22%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

612
437
209
140
110
106
76
71
71
62
42
40
29
28
26
21
18
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16
16
16
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13
12
11
11
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZIGAN:

26% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
SOREL 6.06 bits
18.5% →
TARSE 5.55 bits
8.9% →
CRISE 5.33 bits
5.9% →
ROUTE 5.18 bits
4.7% →
TALER 4.58 bits
4.5% →
STOLE 4.42 bits
3.2% →
LEANT 4.27 bits
3.0% →
LOURE 5.21 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.35 bits
2.6% →
TORSE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10I1G2A1N1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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