5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

ISSUE

Yes, ISSUE was the Wordle answer on August 18, 2025 (Wordle #1521).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃuː//ˈɪsjuː//ˈɪʃjuː/

Noun

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow

Noun

Someone or something that flows out or comes out

Verb

To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

“The water issued forth from the spring.”

Verb

To rush out, to sally forth.

“The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.”

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: August 18, 2025 (#1521).

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

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How ISSUE performs as a guess

ISSUE 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,120 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 5th position I__U_ I in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _S__E S in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ALTER TRAIN TRULY CARLE SLART
Words starting with I Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ISSUE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,120 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ISSUE ranks #13,120 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
668
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
36
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
3 vowels
Common:
EISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
I S S U E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ISSUE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

401
377
270
164
154
143
91
79
74
69
68
47
43
35
28
27
25
19
19
18
16
12
12
12
12
11
11
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ISSUE:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
CAROL 5.76 bits
16.0% →
ALTER 5.39 bits
11.5% →
TRAIN 5.18 bits
7.0% →
TRULY 4.59 bits
6.5% →
CARLE 4.39 bits
6.1% →
SLART 5.03 bits
3.9% →
DINER 4.72 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.42 bits
3.1% →
STINK 4.47 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 3.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1S1S1U1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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