5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHISH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɪʃ/

Interjection

Used to request quiet; similar to shh.

Verb

To be quiet; to keep quiet.

“He wouldn’t shish, so I kicked him.”

Adjective

On a skewer.

Noun

The spine of a shish kebab structure.

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 SHISH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHISH 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 56.9% of games, misses completely in 43.1%, and leaves about 517 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,315 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__H H in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE LINER PEART CRANE RUOTE LAREE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.26 Entropy (bits)
517 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHISH 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,315 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHISH ranks #14,315 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
588
4 guesses
1,283
5 guesses
412
6 guesses
38
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
37%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

53 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1017
282
222
160
82
71
59
55
52
47
44
30
25
24
22
21
18
18
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11
9
7
7
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5
5
4
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHISH:

43% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
LINER
9% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.1% →
ROATE 5.97 bits
12.0% →
LINER 5.18 bits
9.4% →
PEART 5.39 bits
6.8% →
CRANE 4.87 bits
3.5% →
RUOTE 4.71 bits
3.0% →
LAREE 4.76 bits
2.5% →
ROATE 5.02 bits
2.3% →
ROUTE 4.68 bits
2.2% →
TRACE 4.93 bits
2.0% →
PLANE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1S1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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