Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

VISAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of visa

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of visa

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 VISAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VISAS 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,802 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe VISAS 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.

3.78 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VISAS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#13,802 Rank among openers
Opening with VISAS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,802 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
655
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
377
6 guesses
42
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
2 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
20%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

VISAS can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

600 answers
428 answers
233 answers
207 answers
133 answers
130 answers
110 answers
86 answers
81 answers
35 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1S1A1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing VISAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VISAS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TONER
18% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3%
TONER 5.89 bits
18.0%
CARTE 5.39 bits
9.8%
TRINE 5.51 bits
8.7%
PORTE 5.35 bits
5.6%
RONTE 4.64 bits
5.5%
THALE 4.74 bits
4.6%
RENAL 4.56 bits
3.6%
STILE 4.20 bits
3.4%
TRAIN 4.60 bits
1.5%
RONTE 4.19 bits

Research on VISAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with VISAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,833 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,753 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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 VEEZUHZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VISAS is a kind of warrant or endorse.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VISAS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

Nobody told us that we needed visas.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
They were able to extend their visas.
© tatoeba.org contributor CH (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).