5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHILL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɪl/

Noun

A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.

“carnival barkers and their shills, fleecing the rubes”

Noun

Any person enthusiastically endorsing a product; especially, one who is getting paid for the endorsement.

“On the screen, there was that quack again, playing the shill for yet another drug company.”

Verb

To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.

“That contractor seems to be shilling for a certain brand of building materials.”

Verb

To put under cover; to sheal.

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 SHILL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHILL 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 71.7% of games, misses completely in 28.3%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,838 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

S___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__L H in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE RONTE BLARE PEART RUOTE CARTE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHILL 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,838 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHILL ranks #6,838 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
19
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:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
37%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

668
199
185
172
123
121
111
73
53
46
40
37
33
31
31
28
26
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHILL:

28% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
8% chance
Suggested:
BLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.3% →
ORATE 6.00 bits
8.4% →
RONTE 5.39 bits
7.8% →
BLARE 5.26 bits
7.3% →
PEART 5.48 bits
5.2% →
RUOTE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
CARTE 5.36 bits
4.7% →
TRONE 5.03 bits
3.1% →
TONER 4.59 bits
2.2% →
CARTE 4.42 bits
2.0% →
TRUCE 4.80 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1L1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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