5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

KRIOL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiɒl//ˈkɹiːəʊl//ˈkɹeɪəʊl/

Proper noun

A creole language widely spoken by Australian Aborigines in Arnhem Land; Roper River creole; Australian Kriol.

Proper noun

The Belizean Creole; descendants of African slaves who were brought primarily from Jamaica and Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast to cut down mahogany trees in Belize.

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 KRIOL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KRIOL 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,949 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.

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__O_ K in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

STANE TEASE SLATE THANE CASTE HORSE
Words starting with K Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
140 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KRIOL 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,949 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KRIOL ranks #3,949 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
939
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
192
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
31%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

357
225
190
176
155
112
97
85
69
65
54
48
45
45
45
43
42
38
32
31
30
25
22
19
18
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14
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KRIOL:

15% chance
Suggested:
STANE
10% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
STANE 6.05 bits
9.5% →
TEASE 5.40 bits
8.1% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
7.5% →
THANE 5.11 bits
6.6% →
CASTE 5.00 bits
4.7% →
HORSE 4.45 bits
4.1% →
CADET 4.90 bits
3.6% →
STANE 5.15 bits
2.9% →
SANED 4.41 bits
2.8% →
SCOTE 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5R1I1O1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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