5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ZURFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of zurf

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 ZURFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZURFS 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 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,541 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE CADET STALE CLONE GLACE STOAE
Words starting with Z Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.60 Entropy (bits)
358 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZURFS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,541 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZURFS ranks #12,541 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
707
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
335
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
17%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

717
411
328
104
98
93
90
62
56
55
49
29
26
21
21
18
16
14
14
12
10
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6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZURFS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
17% chance
Suggested:
CADET
14% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.4% →
ALONE 6.09 bits
17.4% →
CADET 5.32 bits
13.9% →
STALE 5.68 bits
4.4% →
CLONE 4.97 bits
4.2% →
GLACE 4.16 bits
3.9% →
STOAE 4.94 bits
3.8% →
COATE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
ALINE 5.14 bits
2.4% →
CRUET 4.84 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10U1R1F4S1
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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