5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

VISTA

VISTA is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈvɪstə//ˈviːstə/

Noun

A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.

Noun

A site offering such a view.

Verb

To make a vista or landscape of.

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

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 VISTA performs as a guess

VISTA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,596 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

V___A V in the 1st position and A in the 5th position V__T_ V in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE CRINE PROLE ROUET CHARE
Words starting with V Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VISTA 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,596 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VISTA ranks #6,596 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIST

Feedback chances

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

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N I P Y
V I S T A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VISTA in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

441
345
155
154
121
116
116
88
73
65
61
59
46
39
34
30
27
26
25
25
19
18
17
13
13
11
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VISTA:

19% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
DROLE 5.93 bits
14.6% →
CARLE 5.53 bits
6.6% →
CRINE 5.38 bits
6.5% →
PROLE 5.24 bits
5.1% →
CARLE 4.73 bits
4.9% →
ROUET 5.48 bits
4.9% →
CHARE 4.83 bits
3.7% →
DRONE 4.56 bits
3.1% →
CRUET 4.54 bits
2.8% →
TRINE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1S1T1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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