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

ZIZIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 71.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of tsitsith.

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 ZIZIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZIZIT 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 49.6% of games, misses completely in 50.4%, and leaves about 688 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,818 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.07 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ZIZIT 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.

2.62 Entropy (bits)
688 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
71.0% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZIZIT 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.

4.07 Avg guesses
99.53% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,818 Rank among openers
Opening with ZIZIT left 11 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 4.07 average. It ranks #14,818 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
14
3 guesses
461
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
560
6 guesses
49
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
25%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

ZIZIT can come back 30 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1196 answers
307 answers
212 answers
173 answers
133 answers
98 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
30 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
10 answers
6 answers
6 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10I1Z10I1T1
Total: 23 points

Words With Friends

Total: 23 points

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

Strategy after playing ZIZIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZIZIT:

50% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

50.4%
SOARE 6.07 bits
12.9%
SOARE 5.68 bits
8.9%
SLANE 5.20 bits
7.3%
SANER 5.19 bits
5.6%
RANSE 4.68 bits
4.1%
CARLE 4.94 bits
1.8%
SNARE 4.07 bits
1.7%
SNORE 3.96 bits
1.6%
SADHE 3.58 bits
1.3%
CARNE 4.24 bits

Research on ZIZIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZIZIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.07 guesses and ranks #14,825 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.26 guesses at best and is rank #7,438 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.07, at or below the proven-optimal 4.07, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ZEEZUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.