5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SISTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sist

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sist

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 SISTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SISTS 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 62.1% of games, misses completely in 37.9%, and leaves about 423 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,801 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE CARET CRANE PARLE DROLE PEART
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.47 Entropy (bits)
423 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.1% 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 SISTS 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,801 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SISTS ranks #13,801 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
660
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
368
6 guesses
34
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:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
32%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

50 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

893
251
241
179
117
87
79
75
71
50
36
36
21
20
20
18
17
15
14
12
11
10
10
9
9
8
5
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SISTS:

38% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARET
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.9% →
CARLE 6.14 bits
10.6% →
CARET 5.51 bits
10.2% →
CRANE 5.55 bits
7.6% →
PARLE 5.34 bits
5.0% →
DROLE 4.65 bits
3.7% →
CRANE 4.68 bits
3.4% →
PEART 4.41 bits
3.2% →
ALURE 4.84 bits
3.0% →
HAOLE 4.72 bits
2.1% →
PLANE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1S1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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