5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ITEMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.təmz/[ˈaɪ̯.ɾəmz][ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩z]

Noun

plural of item

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of item

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 ITEMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ITEMS 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,903 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 _T__S T in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LAREE CRONY CLARY TROUT SNARL RIDGE
Words starting with I Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ITEMS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,903 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ITEMS ranks #5,903 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
21
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:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
16%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
337
174
145
137
109
107
98
93
66
60
54
49
45
34
33
32
29
28
27
27
23
20
18
16
15
14
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ITEMS:

14% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
14% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
7% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
LAREE 5.40 bits
14.3% →
CRONY 5.79 bits
7.4% →
CLARY 5.06 bits
6.1% →
TROUT 5.25 bits
5.8% →
SNARL 5.02 bits
4.6% →
RIDGE 4.62 bits
4.5% →
LEARE 5.00 bits
4.2% →
PARSE 4.79 bits
3.9% →
TAINT 4.42 bits
2.8% →
MOLAR 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1T1E1M3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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