5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ILIAL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Archaic form of iliac (“Pertaining to the ilium”).

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 ILIAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ILIAL 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 329 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,792 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__A_ I in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__L L in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE RONTE TRONE SALLE SOYLE
Words starting with I Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
329 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ILIAL 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,792 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ILIAL ranks #13,792 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
383
6 guesses
30
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
30%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

677
455
198
162
92
90
82
77
63
53
41
39
32
29
28
19
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ILIAL:

29% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
19% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.7% →
TORSE 6.23 bits
19.3% →
CRATE 5.56 bits
8.4% →
RONTE 5.18 bits
6.9% →
TRONE 5.16 bits
3.9% →
SALLE 4.60 bits
3.8% →
SOYLE 4.96 bits
3.5% →
SONCE 4.56 bits
3.3% →
SENOR 4.46 bits
2.7% →
NADIR 4.31 bits
2.2% →
SPACE 3.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1L1I1A1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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