5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CISCO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪskəʊ/

Noun

Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

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 CISCO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CISCO 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,002 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.

C___O C in the 1st position and O in the 5th position C__C_ C in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TALER STALE TRINE PALET ROOST PARLE
Words starting with C Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CISCO 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
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,002 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CISCO ranks #11,002 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

587
340
250
222
122
99
85
73
69
43
41
35
25
24
24
20
19
19
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CISCO:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALER
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
TALER 6.08 bits
14.4% →
TALER 5.24 bits
10.6% →
STALE 5.64 bits
9.4% →
TRINE 5.60 bits
5.2% →
PALET 4.59 bits
4.2% →
ROOST 4.58 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.45 bits
3.1% →
PARLE 5.18 bits
2.9% →
LEANT 4.92 bits
1.8% →
TARSE 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3I1S1C3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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