5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WHIST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪst//ˈʍɪst/[ˈw̥ɪst]

Noun

Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.

Noun

A session of playing this card game.

Interjection

Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!

Interjection

Onomatopoeia for slicing.

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 WHIST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHIST 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,643 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

W___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE LINER PARLE TARTE CRANE CARNE
Words starting with W Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHIST 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,643 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHIST ranks #4,643 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
902
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
204
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
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
32%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

685
195
153
136
115
99
90
76
69
55
46
46
39
34
31
31
29
28
23
23
21
18
18
18
14
14
13
12
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHIST:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER
6% chance
Suggested:
PARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
CARLE 6.11 bits
8.3% →
LINER 5.30 bits
6.5% →
PARLE 5.51 bits
5.8% →
TARTE 5.42 bits
4.9% →
CRANE 4.92 bits
4.2% →
CARLE 5.07 bits
3.8% →
CARNE 5.17 bits
3.2% →
PRATE 4.47 bits
2.9% →
PARLE 4.92 bits
2.3% →
DROLE 4.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4I1S1T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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