5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

ZONAL

ZONAL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊnəl/

Adjective

Divided into zones.

Adjective

Related to, associated with, or similar to zones.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 ZONAL performs as a guess

ZONAL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,490 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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__A_ Z in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

STIRE TARSE SLICE TRICE RUOTE STALE
Words starting with Z Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZONAL 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,490 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZONAL ranks #9,490 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
22
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:
ALNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
27%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L U C I D
P O L K A
Z O N A L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ZONAL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

454
335
169
160
135
127
126
83
60
59
56
50
43
39
37
34
28
26
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25
20
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZONAL:

19% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
14% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
STIRE 6.12 bits
14.2% →
TARSE 5.66 bits
7.2% →
SLICE 5.07 bits
6.8% →
TRICE 5.20 bits
5.7% →
RUOTE 4.56 bits
5.4% →
STIRE 5.30 bits
5.3% →
STALE 4.87 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.66 bits
2.5% →
CEDAR 4.36 bits
2.5% →
SPICE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1N1A1L1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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