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PROWL

Yes, PROWL was the Wordle answer on April 30, 2024 (Wordle #1046).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹaʊl//pɹoʊl/

Verb

To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.

“Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.”

Verb

To idle; to go about aimlessly.

“That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit.”

Noun

The act of prowling.

“I'm going on a midnight prowl.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 30, 2024 (#1046).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PROWL performs as a guess

PROWL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,909 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___L P in the 1st position and L in the 5th position P__W_ P in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__L R in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

SAINE SAICE SATED CONTE CADIE TARRE
Words starting with P Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PROWL 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#3,909 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PROWL ranks #3,909 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,200
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
8
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
1 vowels
Common:
LOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
P L U C K
P R O W L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PROWL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

503
257
256
163
133
107
68
66
64
55
50
50
42
35
34
33
29
25
24
22
17
17
15
14
14
14
13
13
12
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PROWL:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
11% chance
Suggested:
SATED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
SAINE 6.23 bits
10.9% →
SAICE 5.46 bits
10.9% →
SATED 5.35 bits
6.9% →
CONTE 5.19 bits
5.6% →
CADIE 5.01 bits
4.5% →
TARRE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
STANE 4.60 bits
2.8% →
SAINT 4.60 bits
2.7% →
STANE 5.07 bits
2.3% →
THANE 5.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1W4L1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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