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

FOLIE

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

No dictionary definition for FOLIE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 FOLIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FOLIE 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 87.6% of games, misses completely in 12.4%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,600 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

F___E F in the 1st position and E in the 5th position F__I_ F in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FOLIE 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.

5.07 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FOLIE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,600 Rank among openers
Opening with FOLIE left 1 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,600 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
11
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:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
42%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

FOLIE can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

294 answers
267 answers
152 answers
149 answers
145 answers
115 answers
111 answers
102 answers
73 answers
64 answers
60 answers
55 answers
54 answers
43 answers
40 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1L1I1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SMART RESET REAST ARSON SHIRT SHART

Strategy after playing FOLIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FOLIE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SMART
11% chance
Suggested:
RESET
6% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
SMART 5.79 bits
11.2% →
RESET 5.50 bits
6.4% →
REAST 4.90 bits
6.3% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
6.1% →
SHIRT 5.11 bits
4.8% →
SHART 4.47 bits
4.7% →
SAUNT 4.92 bits
4.3% →
PETAL 4.51 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 4.14 bits
2.7% →
CADET 4.63 bits

Research on FOLIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with FOLIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,385 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,264 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FOHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FOLIE is a kind of upset.

Synonyms disturbance

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FOLIE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).