5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

KRILL

Yes, KRILL was the Wordle answer on April 4, 2025 (Wordle #1385).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kɹɪl/

Noun

Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Noun

Crack cocaine.

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: April 4, 2025 (#1385).

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

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How KRILL performs as a guess

KRILL 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 75.8% of games, misses completely in 24.2%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,417 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

K___L K in the 1st position and L in the 5th position K__L_ K in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SAUTE TERRA SIENT ALOSE STANE STONE
Words starting with K Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.09 Entropy (bits)
254 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KRILL 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,417 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KRILL ranks #11,417 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
16
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:
ILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
31%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
K R I L L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches KRILL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

571
368
194
185
154
109
81
66
66
60
50
47
38
31
26
24
23
20
19
15
15
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12
10
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9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KRILL:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAUTE
16% chance
Suggested:
TERRA
8% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2% →
SAUTE 6.11 bits
15.6% →
TERRA 5.35 bits
8.2% →
SIENT 4.99 bits
7.8% →
ALOSE 5.34 bits
6.5% →
STANE 4.81 bits
4.6% →
STONE 5.26 bits
3.4% →
SIDER 4.40 bits
2.8% →
POTAE 4.51 bits
2.8% →
STANE 5.04 bits
2.5% →
SAUTE 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5R1I1L1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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