5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SWISS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 74.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɪs/

Verb

To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.

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 SWISS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWISS 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 53.3% of games, misses completely in 46.7%, and leaves about 604 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,630 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.98 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__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _W__S W in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE LINER PEART CRANE DROLE PATER
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

2.90 Entropy (bits)
604 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
74.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWISS 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.

3.98 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,630 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWISS ranks #14,630 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
547
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
483
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
53%
Green tile
32%
All gray
47%

Feedback distribution

44 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1101
311
244
170
101
95
52
50
31
19
18
17
15
13
13
12
12
11
9
8
7
5
5
5
5
3
3
3
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWISS:

47% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
LINER
10% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.7% →
ROATE 6.06 bits
13.2% →
LINER 5.14 bits
10.3% →
PEART 5.34 bits
7.2% →
CRANE 5.00 bits
4.3% →
DROLE 5.22 bits
4.0% →
ROATE 5.08 bits
2.2% →
PATER 4.60 bits
2.1% →
LEANT 3.93 bits
1.3% →
ROATE 4.05 bits
0.8% →
GRACE 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4I1S1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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