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

ZLOTY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /zlɒti//zlɑti/

Noun

The currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.

Alternative forms: złoty

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ZLAWTEE.

In a sentence

The book costs ten zloty after discount.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use ZLOTY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% 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 ZLOTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZLOTY 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,917 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ZLOTY 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.

4.12 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZLOTY 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,917 Rank among openers
Opening with ZLOTY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,917 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
783
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
35%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

ZLOTY can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

594 answers
284 answers
203 answers
193 answers
154 answers
116 answers
108 answers
80 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
53 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
33 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10L1O1T1Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Strategy after playing ZLOTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZLOTY:

25% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
RAISE 6.24 bits
11.9% →
RAISE 5.66 bits
8.5% →
RAISE 5.40 bits
8.1% →
CARNE 5.43 bits
6.5% →
PARSE 4.70 bits
4.9% →
SPACE 5.06 bits
4.5% →
CRANE 4.92 bits
3.4% →
ROUET 4.53 bits
2.6% →
SALLE 4.83 bits
2.4% →
SALUE 4.03 bits

Research on ZLOTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZLOTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,204 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,202 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ZLOTY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).