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PROLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹəʊl//pɹoʊl/

Noun

A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.

Noun

A pleb (ordinary person).

Verb

To prowl; to proll.

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 PROLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PROLE 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 87.7% of games, misses completely in 12.3%, and leaves about 96 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #300 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PROLE 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.

5.45 Entropy (bits)
96 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PROLE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#300 Rank among openers
Opening with PROLE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.57 average. It ranks #300 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
1,046
4 guesses
1,083
5 guesses
151
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
41%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

PROLE can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

291 answers
147 answers
143 answers
129 answers
128 answers
119 answers
98 answers
77 answers
75 answers
71 answers
57 answers
46 answers
43 answers
38 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAINT STAIR SAUNT CHART BETEL SATIN

Strategy after playing PROLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PROLE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
6% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.3% →
SAINT 6.12 bits
6.2% →
STAIR 4.48 bits
6.0% →
SAINT 5.29 bits
5.4% →
SAUNT 5.08 bits
5.4% →
SAINT 5.18 bits
5.0% →
SAINT 5.22 bits
4.1% →
CHART 4.82 bits
3.2% →
BETEL 4.45 bits
3.2% →
SAUNT 4.14 bits
3.0% →
SAINT 4.64 bits

Research on PROLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PROLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.59 guesses and ranks #95 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #148 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.59, 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 PROHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PROLE is a kind of actor.

Synonyms worker

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PROLE 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).