5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HILSA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Tenualosa ilisha, a fish in the herring family, and a popular food fish in South Asia.

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 HILSA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HILSA 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,072 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

H___A H in the 1st position and A in the 5th position H__S_ H in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TONER TRONE RONTE ROUET TRAPE TRUCE
Words starting with H Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HILSA 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,072 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HILSA ranks #2,072 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
1,005
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
AILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
24%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

352
284
151
151
134
128
85
84
83
59
52
48
43
38
32
31
30
28
28
26
26
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HILSA:

15% chance
Suggested:
TONER
12% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
6% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
TONER 5.93 bits
12.0% →
TRONE 5.54 bits
6.4% →
RONTE 4.53 bits
6.4% →
TRONE 5.50 bits
5.7% →
ROUET 5.01 bits
5.4% →
TONER 5.32 bits
3.6% →
TRAPE 4.80 bits
3.6% →
RONTE 4.64 bits
3.5% →
TRUCE 5.22 bits
2.5% →
NADIR 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1L1S1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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