Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

LILTY

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

No dictionary definition for LILTY is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 LILTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LILTY 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 73.5% of games, misses completely in 26.5%, and leaves about 264 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,829 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe LILTY 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)
264 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LILTY 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,829 Rank among openers
Opening with LILTY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,829 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
792
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
312
6 guesses
25
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:
ILT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
31%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

LILTY can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

628 answers
276 answers
222 answers
200 answers
172 answers
97 answers
83 answers
66 answers
58 answers
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38 answers
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13 answers
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9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1L1T1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing LILTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LILTY:

26% chance
Suggested:
AROSE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.5%
AROSE 6.08 bits
11.6%
SOARE 5.70 bits
9.4%
SLANE 5.14 bits
8.4%
CRANE 5.54 bits
7.2%
DORSE 4.79 bits
4.1%
SNARE 4.68 bits
3.5%
RANSE 4.80 bits
2.8%
CLADE 4.57 bits
2.4%
SOARE 4.74 bits
2.4%
BLEAT 4.56 bits

Research on LILTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with LILTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,723 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with LILTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LIHLTEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.