5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

AILED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /eɪld/

Verb

simple past and past participle of ail

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 AILED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AILED 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,654 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___D A in the 1st position and D in the 5th position A__E_ A in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AILED.

First-turn measures

All four describe AILED 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.

5.36 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AILED 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,654 Rank among openers
Opening with AILED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,654 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
89
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
33%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

AILED can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

260 answers
221 answers
190 answers
135 answers
120 answers
112 answers
89 answers
81 answers
77 answers
68 answers
62 answers
53 answers
48 answers
43 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1I1L1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SHORT ROAST TERSE CRATE PRINT TORSE

Strategy after playing AILED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AILED:

11% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
TERSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
SHORT 5.84 bits
9.3% →
ROAST 5.08 bits
8.0% →
TERSE 5.61 bits
5.7% →
CRATE 5.03 bits
5.1% →
PRINT 4.97 bits
4.7% →
TORSE 4.38 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.52 bits
3.4% →
SLURP 4.69 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 4.60 bits
2.9% →
SHOTE 3.74 bits

Research on AILED

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

Optimal play

Opening with AILED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #501 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with AILED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it AYLD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AILED is a kind of seasoning or hurt.

Synonyms pain trouble garlic

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AILED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).