5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

VILLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vill

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 VILLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VILLS 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 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 363 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,540 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

V___S V in the 1st position and S in the 5th position V__L_ V 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

ROATE STARE TRINE CLEAR RONTE CARTE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.72 Entropy (bits)
363 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VILLS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,540 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VILLS ranks #11,540 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
20
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)
67%
Green tile
21%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

775
338
231
226
110
86
56
53
51
48
35
27
23
19
19
16
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
9
9
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VILLS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.9% →
ROATE 6.12 bits
14.3% →
STARE 5.70 bits
9.8% →
TRINE 5.68 bits
9.6% →
CLEAR 5.32 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.71 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.56 bits
2.4% →
CARTE 4.47 bits
2.2% →
CRANE 4.44 bits
2.2% →
SHAPE 4.57 bits
2.0% →
REATE 4.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1L1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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