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

VISNA

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

No dictionary definition for VISNA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use VISNA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How VISNA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VISNA 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,534 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe VISNA 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VISNA 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,534 Rank among openers
Opening with VISNA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,534 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
795
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

VISNA can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

453 answers
379 answers
192 answers
151 answers
146 answers
99 answers
97 answers
78 answers
68 answers
58 answers
50 answers
46 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1S1N1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing VISNA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VISNA:

19% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
16% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
ROUET 5.89 bits
15.9% →
CARLE 5.55 bits
8.1% →
PORTE 5.45 bits
6.3% →
TRICE 5.45 bits
6.1% →
THALE 4.87 bits
4.2% →
COREY 4.80 bits
4.1% →
PORTE 4.43 bits
3.3% →
CANOE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
STILE 4.39 bits
2.4% →
RATEL 4.40 bits

Research on VISNA

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

Optimal play

Opening with VISNA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,950 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,642 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).