5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHIRS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shir

Noun

plural of shir

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 SHIRS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHIRS 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 75.9% of games, misses completely in 24.1%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,525 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE CANOE TILDE LEANT HAUTE LEAST
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.5% 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 SHIRS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,525 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHIRS ranks #9,525 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
24
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:
IRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
33%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

569
379
193
155
99
94
82
81
69
58
42
39
36
35
34
33
31
31
24
20
19
17
13
10
10
10
10
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHIRS:

24% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
16% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.1% →
ALONE 6.11 bits
16.1% →
CANOE 5.23 bits
8.2% →
TILDE 5.13 bits
6.6% →
LEANT 5.32 bits
4.2% →
HAUTE 4.97 bits
4.0% →
ALONE 5.04 bits
3.5% →
LEAST 5.11 bits
3.4% →
DIANE 4.49 bits
2.9% →
BEATY 4.83 bits
2.5% →
PLATE 3.91 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1R1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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