5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PILAW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of pilaf.

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 PILAW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PILAW 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 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,686 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__W I in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE CRATE TRINE ROUET STANE RONTE
Words starting with P Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PILAW 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,686 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PILAW ranks #4,686 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
9
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

502
361
183
143
120
107
72
65
60
57
55
51
44
37
33
31
27
25
23
22
22
21
21
20
16
15
13
13
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PILAW:

21% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
15% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
TORSE 6.28 bits
15.3% →
CRATE 5.60 bits
7.8% →
TRINE 5.60 bits
6.1% →
ROUET 5.12 bits
5.1% →
STANE 4.67 bits
4.5% →
RONTE 4.80 bits
3.1% →
NADIR 4.49 bits
2.8% →
STURE 5.15 bits
2.5% →
SLICE 3.97 bits
2.4% →
TRODE 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1L1A1W4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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