5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PILEA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pileum

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 PILEA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PILEA 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 89.1% of games, misses completely in 10.9%, and leaves about 108 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,944 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

THORN ROAST TERSE STARE TONER SHIRT
Words starting with P Words ending with A

First-turn measures

5.25 Entropy (bits)
108 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PILEA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,944 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PILEA ranks #2,944 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
31%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

256
228
189
155
118
110
94
77
76
71
64
63
51
50
42
38
34
28
26
25
22
22
21
20
20
19
18
17
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PILEA:

11% chance
Suggested:
THORN
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
TERSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.9% →
THORN 5.76 bits
9.7% →
ROAST 5.09 bits
8.0% →
TERSE 5.57 bits
6.6% →
STARE 4.85 bits
5.0% →
TONER 4.35 bits
4.7% →
SHIRT 4.87 bits
4.0% →
COAST 4.48 bits
3.3% →
SCOLD 4.37 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 4.70 bits
3.0% →
DIRTY 4.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1L1E1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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