5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHOJI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper, used in traditional Japanese architecture.

Alternative forms: shojii, soji, sojii

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 SHOJI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOJI 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 73.5% of games, misses completely in 26.5%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,747 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 _H__I H in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER ANILE TALER PLATE PLANE PRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOJI 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,747 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOJI ranks #12,747 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
28
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
27%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

626
357
247
162
125
105
87
72
63
50
49
42
41
38
33
33
30
24
15
14
12
12
11
10
10
9
8
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOJI:

27% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
15% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.5% →
ALTER 5.98 bits
15.1% →
ANILE 5.33 bits
10.5% →
TALER 5.42 bits
6.9% →
PLATE 5.33 bits
5.3% →
PLANE 4.52 bits
4.5% →
PRATE 5.35 bits
3.7% →
RANCE 5.04 bits
3.1% →
PLANE 4.44 bits
2.7% →
POINT 4.35 bits
2.1% →
PEART 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1J8I1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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