5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHIAI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A judo competition.

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 SHIAI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHIAI 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__I H in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE TRONE LINER TONER CLOTE CONTE
Words starting with S Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% 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 SHIAI 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,455 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHIAI ranks #11,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
29
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:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
33%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

514
397
186
129
122
106
90
88
72
63
60
53
46
36
35
26
26
25
25
21
21
18
18
16
15
14
13
11
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHIAI:

22% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
17% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
DROLE 5.88 bits
16.8% →
TRONE 5.34 bits
7.9% →
LINER 5.23 bits
5.5% →
TONER 5.09 bits
5.2% →
TRONE 4.86 bits
4.5% →
CLOTE 4.58 bits
3.8% →
CONTE 4.97 bits
3.7% →
RUOTE 5.32 bits
3.1% →
LEANT 4.38 bits
2.7% →
TRAIN 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1A1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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