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SISSY

Yes, SISSY was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2021 (Wordle #2).

As an opener, it rules out about 79.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪsi/

Noun

An effeminate boy or man.

Noun

A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.

Adjective

Effeminate.

Adjective

Cowardly.

Alternative forms: cissy

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 21, 2021 (#2).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SISSY performs as a guess

SISSY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.7% of games, misses completely in 40.3%, and leaves about 489 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,376 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SISSY.

First-turn measures

All four describe SISSY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.19 Entropy (bits)
489 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SISSY 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.70% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,376 Rank among openers
Opening with SISSY left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,376 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
574
4 guesses
1,307
5 guesses
417
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
43%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S I S S Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SISSY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SISSY can come back 45 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

957 answers
315 answers
234 answers
228 answers
132 answers
92 answers
71 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1S1S1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

ROATE CRANE PEART DROLE RONTE TRINE

Strategy after playing SISSY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SISSY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SISSY:

40% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
10% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.3% →
ROATE 6.09 bits
13.3% →
CRANE 5.47 bits
9.9% →
PEART 5.36 bits
9.6% →
DROLE 4.79 bits
5.6% →
RONTE 4.84 bits
3.9% →
ROATE 5.00 bits
3.0% →
TRINE 4.27 bits
1.6% →
PALET 3.00 bits
1.6% →
PALER 4.70 bits
1.4% →
HAOLE 3.74 bits

Research on SISSY

Game-tree analysis and word research for SISSY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SISSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.98 guesses and ranks #14,611 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SISSY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94, at or below the proven-optimal 3.98, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SIHSEE.

Rhymes with MISSY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SISSY is a kind of coward.

Opposites MANLY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SISSY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).