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

TRAWL

Yes, TRAWL was the Wordle answer on July 27, 2021 (Wordle #38).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /tɹɔːl//tɹoːl//tɹɔl/

Noun

A net or dragnet used for trawling.

Noun

A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

Verb

To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

“The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.”

Verb

To fish from a slow-moving boat.

“They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.”

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: July 27, 2021 (#38).

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

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How TRAWL performs as a guess

TRAWL 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,139 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

T___L T in the 1st position and L in the 5th position T__W_ T 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

NOISE SORER SOUCE HOISE SAMEN CARER
Words starting with T Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TRAWL 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,139 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TRAWL ranks #2,139 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
969
4 guesses
1,142
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
10
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:
ALRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I S T
A C O E L
T R A W L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TRAWL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

340
196
185
168
146
102
100
75
70
63
62
54
42
42
40
39
38
37
34
34
26
25
24
22
21
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20
20
19
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TRAWL:

14% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SORER
8% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
NOISE 5.99 bits
8.3% →
SORER 5.19 bits
7.8% →
SOUCE 5.13 bits
7.1% →
HOISE 5.34 bits
6.2% →
SAMEN 5.15 bits
4.3% →
CARER 4.63 bits
4.2% →
SPICE 4.78 bits
3.2% →
SALLE 4.44 bits
3.0% →
SAUCE 4.42 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1R1A1W4L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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