5 FiveLetterWords
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IDYLL

IDYLL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɪd.ɪl//ˈɪd.əl//ˈaɪ.dɪl/

Noun

Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

Noun

An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.

Alternative forms: idyl

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

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 IDYLL performs as a guess

IDYLL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 379 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,698 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

I___L I in the 1st position and L in the 5th position I__L_ I in the 1st position and L in the 4th position

Try next

TARSE TRINE SOARE RANSE ARENE SONAR
Words starting with I Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
379 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How IDYLL 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,698 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, IDYLL ranks #11,698 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,297
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
19
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:
IL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
15%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
I D Y L L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches IDYLL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

814
330
208
183
134
81
76
60
53
47
41
30
28
24
18
17
17
15
14
14
13
13
9
9
8
7
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing IDYLL:

35% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
TARSE 6.46 bits
14.0% →
TRINE 5.45 bits
8.8% →
SOARE 5.43 bits
7.8% →
RANSE 4.93 bits
5.7% →
ARENE 5.40 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.56 bits
3.2% →
TRONE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
CONTE 4.28 bits
2.2% →
SOARE 4.15 bits
2.0% →
SIENT 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1D2Y4L1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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