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FRILL

Yes, FRILL was the Wordle answer on July 31, 2025 (Wordle #1503).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fɹɪl/

Noun

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

Noun

A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

Verb

To make into a frill.

Verb

To become wrinkled.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 31, 2025 (#1503).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How FRILL performs as a guess

FRILL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.2% of games, misses completely in 25.8%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,762 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

F___L F in the 1st position and L in the 5th position F__L_ F in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FRILL 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FRILL 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,762 Rank among openers
Opening with FRILL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,762 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
34%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
D O U G H
F R I L L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FRILL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FRILL can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

612 answers
358 answers
186 answers
186 answers
159 answers
108 answers
74 answers
64 answers
60 answers
47 answers
46 answers
36 answers
29 answers
25 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1I1L1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAUTE TERRA SLANE SIENT CANOE STONE

Strategy after playing FRILL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FRILL:

26% chance
Suggested:
SAUTE
15% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.8% →
SAUTE 6.09 bits
15.1% →
TERRA 5.36 bits
7.8% →
SLANE 5.40 bits
7.8% →
SIENT 5.00 bits
6.7% →
CANOE 4.93 bits
4.5% →
STONE 5.20 bits
3.1% →
RIDER 4.38 bits
2.7% →
SAUTE 4.79 bits
2.5% →
POTAE 4.41 bits
2.0% →
CONTE 3.79 bits

Research on FRILL

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

Optimal play

Opening with FRILL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,366 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,301 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 FRIHL.

Rhymes with STILL UNTIL SKILL CHILL DRILL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FRILL is a kind of plate or part.

Synonyms nonsense ruff

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FRILL 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).