5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZOOID

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈzəʊɔɪd//ˈzuːɔɪd/

Noun

An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozoid.

Noun

An animal in one of its inferior or early stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.

Adjective

Relating to, or resembling, an animal.

Alternative forms: zoöid

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 ZOOID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZOOID 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 60.6% of games, misses completely in 39.4%, and leaves about 460 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,976 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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__I_ Z in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRINE CARLE CRATE DEARE MANOR
Words starting with Z Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
460 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZOOID 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,976 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZOOID ranks #13,976 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
611
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
393
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
30%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

930
354
166
148
115
111
94
52
42
30
26
26
23
20
20
17
16
15
14
14
13
12
12
11
9
8
7
6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZOOID:

39% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
7% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.4% →
TARSE 6.29 bits
15.0% →
TRINE 5.35 bits
7.0% →
CARLE 4.76 bits
6.3% →
CRATE 4.90 bits
4.9% →
DEARE 5.12 bits
4.7% →
MANOR 5.30 bits
4.0% →
LEANT 4.98 bits
2.2% →
GRATE 4.47 bits
1.8% →
BRANE 4.48 bits
1.3% →
PIANO 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1O1I1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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