5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

VOILE

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

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /vɔɪl/

Noun

A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.

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 VOILE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VOILE 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,295 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

V___E V in the 1st position and E in the 5th position V__L_ V in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in VOILE.

First-turn measures

All four describe VOILE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.00 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VOILE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,295 Rank among openers
Opening with VOILE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,295 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

VOILE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

315 answers
273 answers
155 answers
143 answers
139 answers
124 answers
105 answers
99 answers
86 answers
57 answers
54 answers
49 answers
46 answers
41 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1I1L1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SMART RESET ARSON SATIN SHART STARY

Strategy after playing VOILE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to VOILE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOILE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SMART
11% chance
Suggested:
RESET
7% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
SMART 5.75 bits
11.5% →
RESET 5.47 bits
6.5% →
ARSON 5.11 bits
6.0% →
SATIN 4.93 bits
5.9% →
SHART 5.02 bits
5.2% →
STARY 4.46 bits
4.4% →
CLASP 4.82 bits
4.2% →
ALTER 4.45 bits
3.6% →
STARY 4.68 bits
2.4% →
RIPEN 4.40 bits

Research on VOILE

Game-tree analysis and word research for VOILE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with VOILE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,330 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,636 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it VOYL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VOILE is a kind of material.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VOILE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).