Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

WILJA

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of wiltja.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use WILJA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How WILJA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WILJA 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 74.5% of games, misses completely in 25.5%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,979 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe WILJA 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.

3.76 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WILJA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,979 Rank among openers
Opening with WILJA left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,979 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
686
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
342
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
18%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

WILJA can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

607 answers
447 answers
223 answers
192 answers
172 answers
131 answers
80 answers
73 answers
45 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1L1J8A1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 18 points

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

Strategy after playing WILJA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WILJA:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.5% →
TORSE 6.25 bits
18.8% →
TARSE 5.63 bits
9.4% →
TRINE 5.58 bits
8.1% →
STANE 4.62 bits
7.2% →
ROUSE 5.07 bits
5.5% →
RONTE 4.85 bits
3.4% →
NADIR 4.65 bits
3.1% →
SLICE 4.10 bits
1.9% →
SENOR 4.44 bits
1.6% →
MORNE 4.65 bits

Research on WILJA

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

Optimal play

Opening with WILJA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,098 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #6,022 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).