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ZINGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zing

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of zing

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 ZINGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZINGS 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 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 359 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,886 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.
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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ZINGS.

First-turn measures

All four describe ZINGS 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.

3.72 Entropy (bits)
359 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZINGS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#11,886 Rank among openers
Opening with ZINGS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,886 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
17%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

ZINGS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

781 answers
356 answers
205 answers
172 answers
96 answers
88 answers
80 answers
70 answers
67 answers
62 answers
39 answers
34 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10I1N1G2S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

ROATE STARE TRACE CADET GLARE STILE

Strategy after playing ZINGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZINGS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.9% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
15.0% →
STARE 5.72 bits
8.6% →
TRACE 5.56 bits
7.2% →
ROATE 5.26 bits
4.0% →
CADET 4.52 bits
3.7% →
GLARE 5.35 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.49 bits
2.9% →
TALER 4.74 bits
2.8% →
HAOLE 4.62 bits
2.6% →
ROATE 4.60 bits

Research on ZINGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZINGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,972 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,426 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it ZIHNGZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ZINGS is a kind of sound or activity.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ZINGS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).