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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

ISLET

Yes, ISLET was the Wordle answer on September 22, 2021 (Wordle #95).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.lət/

Noun

A small island.

“There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.”

Noun

An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 22, 2021 (#95).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ISLET performs as a guess

ISLET is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 99 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___T I in the 1st position and T in the 5th position I__E_ I in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _S__T S in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

ACORN DEARE CAIRN ROANY SHARP GLARE
Words starting with I Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.31 Entropy (bits)
99 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ISLET 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,657 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ISLET ranks #1,657 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
17
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:
EILST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
29%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
I S L E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ISLET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

279
200
130
121
118
104
87
87
85
66
60
57
52
48
45
45
44
41
34
33
33
32
31
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26
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24
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19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ISLET:

12% chance
Suggested:
ACORN
8% chance
Suggested:
DEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
ACORN 5.67 bits
8.5% →
DEARE 5.51 bits
5.5% →
CAIRN 5.13 bits
5.1% →
ROANY 4.90 bits
5.0% →
SHARP 4.94 bits
4.4% →
ROANY 4.19 bits
3.7% →
GLARE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
PARSE 4.79 bits
3.6% →
NORTH 4.96 bits
2.8% →
CRINE 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1S1L1E1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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