5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PILIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria

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 PILIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PILIN 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 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,495 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE SOARE STARE TARSE SATER SABLE
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.04 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PILIN 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,495 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PILIN ranks #9,495 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
859
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
27%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

757
284
201
113
106
84
68
64
64
59
54
51
50
35
32
20
19
18
17
16
14
14
12
12
11
11
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PILIN:

32% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.1% →
ROATE 6.25 bits
12.0% →
SOARE 5.44 bits
8.5% →
ROATE 5.46 bits
4.8% →
STARE 5.30 bits
4.5% →
TARSE 5.65 bits
3.6% →
SATER 4.46 bits
2.9% →
SABLE 4.68 bits
2.7% →
SAWER 4.57 bits
2.7% →
TRONE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
CARET 5.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1L1I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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