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PHIAL

No recorded appearance. PHIAL is in this site's accepted-guess snapshot but outside its working answer pool.

As an opener, it eliminates 92.9% of the working answer pool on average.

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Wordle and site status

These are separate facts: recorded NYT history, the site's captured guess snapshot, its solver model and its broader practice pool.

Official answer history

No recorded appearance

No appearance in this site's globally completed NYT answer archive. Current puzzle dates are personalized separately.

Captured accepted-guess list

Included

Present in the dated accepted-guess snapshot used by this site's tools.

Working answer pool

Not included

Not currently included in the site's curated solver answer model.

Practice pool

Included

Included in the broader practice lexicon and eligible for puzzle selection.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪəl//faɪl/

Verb

To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a phial.

Noun

A bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally any such vessel, especially one for holding a beverage; now (specifically), a small, narrow glass bottle with a cap used to hold liquid chemicals, medicines, etc.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened. Corrections.

How PHIAL performs as a guess

PHIAL appears in the accepted-guess snapshot but not in the working answer pool, so this model assigns it no opening solve chance.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 167 working-pool answers on average.

In the latest six-turn opener simulation, it ranks #2,245 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___L P in the 1st position and L in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__L H in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SORED TRONE RONTE BOULE STALE TRUCE
Words starting with P Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Solve chance
92.9% Eliminated
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

How PHIAL performs in the latest six-turn opener simulation under the documented continuation policy. The versioned source pool is listed on the data page.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,245 Opener rank
PHIAL ranks #2,245 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
972
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
193
6 guesses
13
No. 1 under this simulation policy: SLANT (3.51 average guesses in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
31%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

434
315
156
141
119
103
76
58
58
55
54
53
47
38
36
36
34
33
30
25
24
24
23
19
19
19
17
17
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PHIAL:

18% chance
Suggested:
SORED
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
SORED 6.04 bits
13.4% →
TRONE 5.50 bits
6.6% →
RONTE 5.36 bits
6.0% →
BOULE 5.10 bits
5.0% →
STALE 4.66 bits
4.4% →
TRONE 5.07 bits
3.2% →
TRUCE 5.09 bits
2.5% →
TRODE 4.53 bits
2.5% →
ROUET 5.00 bits
2.3% →
NADIR 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3H4I1A1L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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