The passenger status marked as WL followed by 5 tells that your present waitlisted status is 5. It means that you can get confirmation on this ticket only if 5 passengers who have booked before you for the same journey cancel their ticket.
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Generally WL4 gets confirmed depending how many days are left in your journey and in which train/route you are traveling.
Can a person with a WL ticket board the train? Yes of course. He can board and is entitled to travel but only when such a ticket has been booked through counter. If it is by online mode it will get cancelled automatically if it does not get confirmed on the last day of travel after chart preparation .
WL 4( as booked status)/ RAC 27(current status). It means when you booked the ticket the status of your ticket was Waiting list 4 , but as cancellation and many other things occur the status of your booked ticket has been changed and the current status of your ticket is RAC( Reservation Against Cancellation) 4 .
If your ticket remains fully waitlisted after chart preparation, it will be canceled automatically and your money will be refunded into the account which was used at the time of booking.
32 indicates the waiting list had went up till 32, but there were 4 cancellations. Your waiting list count has to come down to zero to get confirmed. Confirmation depends on number of days left to travel, demand for the train and mainly on luck.