5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BILLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bɪlz/

Noun

plural of bill

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of bill

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 BILLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BILLS 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 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,064 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

B___S B in the 1st position and S in the 5th position B__L_ B in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE TRONE PORAE CONTE TRINE
Words starting with B Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BILLS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,064 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BILLS ranks #9,064 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,237
5 guesses
254
6 guesses
14
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:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

718
332
218
201
112
82
70
52
49
48
47
33
31
30
20
19
19
16
15
14
14
14
12
12
11
9
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BILLS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.4% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
14.1% →
STARE 5.69 bits
9.2% →
TRONE 5.65 bits
8.5% →
PORAE 5.26 bits
4.7% →
CONTE 4.62 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.57 bits
3.0% →
ROATE 5.12 bits
2.2% →
GLARE 4.54 bits
2.1% →
SHAPE 4.57 bits
2.0% →
CARTE 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3I1L1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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