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

LOLLS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of loll

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Related meanings

Synonyms bum loaf

Use LOLLS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.5% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How LOLLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOLLS 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 65.6% of games, misses completely in 34.4%, and leaves about 393 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,966 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 LOLLS 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.

3.51 Entropy (bits)
393 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOLLS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,966 Rank among openers
Opening with LOLLS left 6 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 3.90 average. It ranks #13,966 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
643
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
372
6 guesses
36

Composition

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
26%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

LOLLS can come back 51 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

819 answers
353 answers
230 answers
191 answers
169 answers
77 answers
68 answers
51 answers
49 answers
45 answers
44 answers
42 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1L1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing LOLLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOLLS:

34% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
15% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.4% →
TIARE 6.25 bits
14.8% →
TIARE 5.71 bits
9.6% →
TRINE 5.37 bits
8.0% →
RAINE 5.12 bits
7.1% →
RANCE 4.69 bits
3.2% →
TRONE 4.29 bits
2.9% →
WAITE 4.74 bits
2.1% →
TIARE 4.64 bits
2.1% →
FARCE 3.90 bits
1.9% →
URITE 4.03 bits

Research on LOLLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LOLLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,148 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 LOLLS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LOLLS 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).