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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

FOLIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of folium

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 FOLIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FOLIA 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 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,905 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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.

F___A F in the 1st position and A in the 5th position F__I_ F in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FOLIA 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FOLIA 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,905 Rank among openers
Opening with FOLIA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,905 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
902
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
18
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:
AILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
28%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

FOLIA can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

381 answers
307 answers
232 answers
167 answers
153 answers
151 answers
97 answers
73 answers
68 answers
43 answers
43 answers
41 answers
39 answers
38 answers
33 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1L1I1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TARSE TERSE TRINE TRONE STANE CRUET

Strategy after playing FOLIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FOLIA:

16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
TERSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
12.9% →
TERSE 6.08 bits
9.8% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
7.0% →
TRONE 5.17 bits
6.4% →
STANE 4.70 bits
6.4% →
CRUET 4.64 bits
4.1% →
SLEEP 4.82 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.27 bits
2.9% →
BARON 4.82 bits
1.8% →
TRUCE 4.47 bits

Research on FOLIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with FOLIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,725 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 FOLIA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FOHLEEUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FOLIA is a kind of formation.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FOLIA 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).