5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ZONES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zone

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of zone

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 ZONES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZONES 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,755 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S Z in the 1st position and S in the 5th position Z__E_ Z in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE SLART ALTER ACTOR CLARY
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZONES 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,755 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZONES ranks #10,755 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
264
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

373
348
197
151
146
125
117
109
64
52
52
47
47
46
41
38
36
28
26
26
23
21
18
17
16
16
14
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZONES:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
REATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
TRAIL 5.92 bits
14.8% →
REATE 5.58 bits
8.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
6.4% →
ALTER 4.32 bits
6.2% →
ACTOR 5.00 bits
5.3% →
SLART 5.06 bits
5.0% →
CLARY 4.66 bits
4.6% →
GRANT 5.09 bits
2.7% →
INANE 4.41 bits
2.2% →
SAUCY 3.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1N1E1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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