5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

SILLY

Yes, SILLY was the Wordle answer on January 18, 2025 (Wordle #1309).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪl.i/

Adjective

Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

“They were laughing at a silly joke.”

Adjective

Mentally simple, foolish

“silly mistake”

Noun

A silly person.

Noun

A term of address.

Alternative forms: sely, seely

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: January 18, 2025 (#1309).

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

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How SILLY performs as a guess

SILLY 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,223 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.

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE TRONE CANOE PEART DRONE ROATE
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
262 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SILLY 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
0.70 Volatility
#8,223 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SILLY ranks #8,223 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
238
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:
ILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
41%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S I L K Y
S I L L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SILLY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

644
224
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188
165
125
96
57
52
35
32
31
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SILLY:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
CANOE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
TRACE 6.36 bits
9.5% →
TRONE 5.63 bits
9.3% →
CANOE 5.30 bits
8.0% →
PEART 5.44 bits
7.0% →
DRONE 4.71 bits
5.3% →
ROATE 5.43 bits
4.1% →
RONTE 4.87 bits
2.4% →
CRANE 4.48 bits
2.2% →
TRINE 4.38 bits
1.5% →
ATONE 4.07 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1L1L1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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