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

ZORIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zori

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

Use ZORIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% 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 ZORIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZORIS 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,300 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 ZORIS 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.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ZORIS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,300 Rank among openers
Opening with ZORIS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,300 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
792
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

ZORIS can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

440 answers
250 answers
235 answers
205 answers
129 answers
126 answers
107 answers
103 answers
81 answers
77 answers
64 answers
62 answers
59 answers
47 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1R1I1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing ZORIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZORIS:

18% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
10% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
10% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
LEANT 6.02 bits
10.5% →
LEANT 5.28 bits
9.9% →
STALE 5.73 bits
8.6% →
CLINE 5.23 bits
5.4% →
LEANY 4.37 bits
5.3% →
ALONE 5.24 bits
4.5% →
CADET 4.53 bits
4.3% →
CADET 4.24 bits
3.4% →
STILE 4.49 bits
3.2% →
LEANT 4.86 bits

Research on ZORIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ZORIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,139 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,865 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).