5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ISBAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of isba

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 ISBAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ISBAS 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,493 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

I___S I in the 1st position and S in the 5th position I__A_ I in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _S__S S in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER CARTE TRINE PORTE THALE STILE
Words starting with I Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ISBAS 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,493 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ISBAS ranks #13,493 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
674
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
385
6 guesses
20
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:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
13%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

543
398
322
226
140
111
95
90
80
48
33
28
25
17
17
16
14
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
8
6
5
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ISBAS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONER
17% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
TONER 5.91 bits
16.9% →
CARTE 5.44 bits
13.7% →
TRINE 5.32 bits
9.6% →
PORTE 5.46 bits
5.9% →
THALE 4.83 bits
4.7% →
STILE 4.58 bits
4.0% →
CLOTE 4.64 bits
3.8% →
NADIR 4.50 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.98 bits
2.0% →
DROLE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1S1B3A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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