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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZINCS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zinc

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of zinc

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 ZINCS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZINCS 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,750 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE TRADE CARLE DROLE GRATE
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZINCS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#9,750 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZINCS ranks #9,750 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
24
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
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
20%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

696
315
175
165
133
103
90
77
71
61
56
42
41
26
26
25
24
21
20
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18
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9
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZINCS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
13.4% →
STARE 5.76 bits
7.4% →
ROATE 5.29 bits
7.0% →
TRADE 5.58 bits
5.6% →
CARLE 5.52 bits
4.4% →
DROLE 4.70 bits
3.8% →
GRATE 4.72 bits
3.3% →
THALE 4.87 bits
3.0% →
STIRE 4.52 bits
2.6% →
ROATE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10I1N1C3S1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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