5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SIJOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sijo

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 SIJOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIJOS 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 367 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,129 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE TRADE CRANE LEANT PALET PRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.47 Entropy (bits)
367 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SIJOS 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,129 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SIJOS ranks #14,129 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
624
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
389
6 guesses
41
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
2 vowels
Common:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

52 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

751
357
284
191
146
114
87
70
61
44
37
23
18
15
14
14
13
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4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIJOS:

32% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
CARLE 6.15 bits
15.1% →
TRADE 5.12 bits
12.0% →
CRANE 5.49 bits
8.1% →
LEANT 5.30 bits
6.2% →
PALET 4.52 bits
4.8% →
PRATE 5.42 bits
3.7% →
TALER 4.96 bits
3.0% →
LEANT 4.27 bits
2.6% →
CARET 4.13 bits
1.9% →
TONER 4.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1J8O1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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