5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHCHI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A type of soup from Russia made from cabbage.

Alternative forms: schchi, schtschi, shchee, shtchee

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 SHCHI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHCHI 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 64.6% of games, misses completely in 35.4%, and leaves about 394 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,483 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

S___I S in the 1st position and I in the 5th position S__H_ S in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _H__I H in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER ANILE LEANT CRANE ROATE TEARY
Words starting with S Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
394 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHCHI 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,483 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHCHI ranks #12,483 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
707
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
306
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
23%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

834
359
185
149
136
82
68
67
51
50
41
41
34
29
26
23
19
14
12
12
11
10
9
9
9
8
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHCHI:

35% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
15% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.4% →
ALTER 6.06 bits
15.2% →
ANILE 5.33 bits
7.8% →
LEANT 5.36 bits
6.3% →
CRANE 5.56 bits
5.8% →
ROATE 5.50 bits
3.5% →
TEARY 5.35 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 4.40 bits
2.8% →
CLINE 4.28 bits
2.2% →
ROAST 4.35 bits
2.1% →
LEANT 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4C3H4I1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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