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

PALLS

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pall

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pall

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 PALLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PALLS 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,886 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PALLS.

First-turn measures

All four describe PALLS 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.

4.26 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PALLS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,886 Rank among openers
Opening with PALLS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,886 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
15
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

PALLS can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

632 answers
245 answers
240 answers
165 answers
145 answers
109 answers
102 answers
63 answers
55 answers
52 answers
45 answers
33 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1L1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TONER TRONE ROUET RONTE CRONE FLARE

Strategy after playing PALLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PALLS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
TONER 6.15 bits
10.3% →
TRONE 5.58 bits
10.1% →
ROUET 5.63 bits
7.0% →
RONTE 4.89 bits
6.1% →
CRONE 4.91 bits
4.6% →
FLARE 4.54 bits
4.3% →
STARE 4.91 bits
2.7% →
RIONE 4.93 bits
2.3% →
RUOTE 5.03 bits
2.2% →
TRINE 4.49 bits

Research on PALLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PALLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,777 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 PALLS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

One syllable Say it PAWLZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PALLS is a kind of dread or covering.

Synonyms die CHILL SCARE tire dash dull

Familiarity and learning

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