5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

RILLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rill

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 RILLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RILLS 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,964 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__L_ R in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COATE STANE CANOE ATONE STOAE CADET
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RILLS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,964 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RILLS ranks #7,964 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
ILRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
23%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

404
378
232
182
145
112
89
84
67
53
52
49
48
45
31
31
21
18
18
17
17
17
14
14
12
12
11
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RILLS:

17% chance
Suggested:
COATE
16% chance
Suggested:
COATE
10% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.1% →
COATE 5.96 bits
16.0% →
COATE 5.58 bits
9.8% →
STANE 5.60 bits
7.7% →
CANOE 5.37 bits
6.1% →
ATONE 5.33 bits
4.7% →
STOAE 5.01 bits
3.8% →
CADET 4.66 bits
3.6% →
CONTE 4.53 bits
2.8% →
STANE 4.60 bits
2.2% →
CADET 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1I1L1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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