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SWISH

Yes, SWISH was the Wordle answer on May 23, 2024 (Wordle #1069).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɪʃ/

Adjective

sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

“This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.”

Adjective

Attractive, stylish

Noun

A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.

Noun

A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.

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: May 23, 2024 (#1069).

See the full page for that puzzle: May 23, 2024 (#1069).

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

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How SWISH performs as a guess

SWISH 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 61.1% of games, misses completely in 38.9%, and leaves about 435 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,896 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___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 _W__H W in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SWISH 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.

3.61 Entropy (bits)
435 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWISH 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,896 Rank among openers
Opening with SWISH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,896 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
694
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
341
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
35%
All gray
39%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S W I N G
S W I S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWISH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SWISH can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

924 answers
276 answers
202 answers
152 answers
100 answers
85 answers
82 answers
68 answers
54 answers
42 answers
40 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4I1S1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROATE LINER PEART CRANE DROLE RUOTE

Strategy after playing SWISH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWISH:

39% 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.

38.9% →
ROATE 5.99 bits
11.6% →
LINER 5.22 bits
8.5% →
PEART 5.38 bits
6.4% →
CRANE 4.86 bits
4.2% →
ROATE 5.59 bits
3.6% →
DROLE 5.13 bits
3.5% →
RUOTE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
LAREE 4.76 bits
2.3% →
ROUTE 4.71 bits
1.8% →
PLANE 4.09 bits

Research on SWISH

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

Optimal play

Opening with SWISH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,525 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,652 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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

One syllable Say it SWIHSH.

Rhymes with PHISH MISCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SWISH is a kind of sound or go.

Synonyms lap classy posh stylish fashionable

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWISH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

In a sentence

Dogs wag their tails and cats swish theirs.
© tatoeba.org contributor darinmex (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).