5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ROILS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of roil

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 ROILS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ROILS 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 89.7% of games, misses completely in 10.3%, and leaves about 102 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #684 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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 _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

MEANT CADET STANE LANCE ATONE THANE
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.24 Entropy (bits)
102 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ROILS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#684 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ROILS ranks #684 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,043
4 guesses
1,047
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ILORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
32%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

244
226
161
149
125
102
88
80
72
56
56
51
51
50
48
48
47
46
41
39
34
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29
27
25
23
23
22
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ROILS:

10% chance
Suggested:
MEANT
10% chance
Suggested:
CADET
7% chance
Suggested:
STANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.3% →
MEANT 5.74 bits
9.6% →
CADET 5.39 bits
6.8% →
STANE 5.52 bits
6.3% →
LANCE 5.18 bits
5.3% →
CADET 5.05 bits
4.3% →
ATONE 4.40 bits
3.7% →
THANE 4.26 bits
3.4% →
SPATE 4.97 bits
3.1% →
THANE 4.93 bits
2.4% →
THANE 5.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1O1I1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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