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

ZOOMY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈzuːmi/

Adjective

That goes zoom!

Adjective

sleek, speedy, streamlined

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

Use ZOOMY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 73.1% 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 ZOOMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZOOMY 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 50.7% of games, misses completely in 49.3%, and leaves about 641 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,635 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.98 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 ZOOMY 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.

3.00 Entropy (bits)
641 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
73.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZOOMY 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.

3.98 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,635 Rank among openers
Opening with ZOOMY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.98 average. It ranks #14,635 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
541
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
489
6 guesses
39

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
51%
Green tile
36%
All gray
49%

Feedback distribution

ZOOMY can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1175 answers
240 answers
164 answers
147 answers
129 answers
118 answers
47 answers
47 answers
36 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1O1M3Y4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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

Strategy after playing ZOOMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZOOMY:

49% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

49.3% →
RAISE 6.13 bits
10.1% →
SLART 4.83 bits
6.9% →
CRATE 4.88 bits
6.2% →
CRUET 4.97 bits
5.4% →
LATER 5.27 bits
4.9% →
RAISE 5.35 bits
2.0% →
PRASE 4.50 bits
2.0% →
SOLDE 3.30 bits
1.5% →
CARLE 4.66 bits
1.3% →
CRUET 3.98 bits

Research on ZOOMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZOOMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,573 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.13 guesses at best and is rank #7,240 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.98; proven optimal play reaches 3.97. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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
ZOOMY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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