5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ZONED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of zone

Adjective

Included in a zone.

“non-zoned land”

Adjective

Synonym of zoned out (“intoxicated by drugs”).

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 ZONED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZONED 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,513 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__E_ Z in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLART STAIR SAINT SALTY LEARE ARENE
Words starting with Z Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.34 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZONED 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,513 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZONED ranks #8,513 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
14
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:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

498
392
168
155
138
120
75
68
64
59
56
49
37
37
33
28
27
21
21
20
19
18
16
15
14
13
12
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZONED:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
SLART 6.06 bits
16.6% →
SLART 5.96 bits
7.1% →
SLART 5.22 bits
6.6% →
STAIR 4.55 bits
5.9% →
SAINT 5.36 bits
5.1% →
SALTY 4.50 bits
3.2% →
LEARE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
ARENE 4.56 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.27 bits
2.5% →
ARSON 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1N1E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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