5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WISTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wist

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 WISTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WISTS 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 66.2% of games, misses completely in 33.8%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,322 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE CARET CRANE PARLE ALURE DROLE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
358 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WISTS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,322 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WISTS ranks #11,322 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
20%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

798
237
230
227
109
108
82
66
59
56
39
34
27
24
20
19
18
15
12
11
11
11
11
10
9
9
8
8
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WISTS:

34% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARET
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.8% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
10.1% →
CARET 5.52 bits
9.8% →
CRANE 5.57 bits
9.6% →
PARLE 5.61 bits
4.6% →
ALURE 4.63 bits
4.6% →
DROLE 4.63 bits
3.5% →
CRANE 4.60 bits
2.8% →
HAOLE 4.66 bits
2.5% →
SPINE 4.48 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1S1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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