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

LOLAS

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

Check LOLAS on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 LOLAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOLAS 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe LOLAS 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOLAS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,474 Rank among openers
Opening with LOLAS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
26%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

LOLAS can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

448 answers
320 answers
193 answers
154 answers
148 answers
131 answers
117 answers
99 answers
71 answers
70 answers
46 answers
43 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1L1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing LOLAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOLAS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
8% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
TRINE 6.13 bits
13.5%
TRICE 5.56 bits
8.1%
STIRE 5.51 bits
6.5%
TRINE 5.39 bits
6.2%
CRUET 4.66 bits
5.5%
REAST 4.74 bits
4.9%
CRINE 4.87 bits
4.2%
PLANE 4.32 bits
3.0%
TROPE 4.05 bits
2.9%
BARON 4.71 bits

Research on LOLAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOLAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,519 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 LOLAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 LOHLUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOLAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).