5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ISSEI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A member of the first generation of Japanese immigrants to North America, South America, or Australia.

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 ISSEI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ISSEI 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,549 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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__E_ I in the 1st position and E in the 4th position

Try next

CORAL LEARE TRIAL SLANT SOLAR ROAST
Words starting with I Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.50 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ISSEI 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,549 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ISSEI ranks #14,549 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
529
4 guesses
1,313
5 guesses
432
6 guesses
40
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
18%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

47 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

592
416
286
209
207
144
119
80
51
33
30
23
22
13
12
12
11
11
7
7
7
7
6
6
5
4
4
4
4
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ISSEI:

25% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
18% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRIAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
CORAL 5.79 bits
17.6% →
LEARE 5.49 bits
12.1% →
TRIAL 5.07 bits
8.9% →
SLANT 5.12 bits
8.8% →
SOLAR 4.07 bits
6.1% →
ROAST 4.87 bits
5.0% →
TRINE 4.50 bits
3.4% →
STINK 4.50 bits
2.2% →
DINER 4.00 bits
1.4% →
SNIPE 3.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1S1S1E1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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