5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ZOISM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A reverence for animal life or belief in animal powers and influences, as among primitive groups.

Noun

A former doctrine claiming that the phenomena of life are due to a peculiar vital principle; the theory of vital force.

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 ZOISM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ZOISM 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,273 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.

_O__M O in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE LATER PLATE TRACE TALER CRANE
Words starting with Z Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ZOISM 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
#11,273 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ZOISM ranks #11,273 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
732
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
16
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
30%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

632
228
218
209
163
151
101
90
68
48
46
36
36
31
24
22
19
19
17
15
14
13
11
11
11
7
7
7
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ZOISM:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
LATER
9% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
CARLE 6.17 bits
9.7% →
LATER 5.24 bits
9.2% →
PLATE 5.48 bits
8.9% →
TRACE 5.22 bits
6.9% →
TALER 4.54 bits
6.4% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
4.3% →
EARLY 5.12 bits
3.8% →
THALE 4.93 bits
2.9% →
PEART 4.10 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 3.91 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Z10O1I1S1M3
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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