By RAW, the Druid dies.
Wild Shape protects you from a few specific things:
When you revert to your normal form, you revert to the number of hit points you had before you transformed (and then take overflow damage).
If you revert and have hitpoints remaining in caster form, you don't fall unconscious as a result of being reduced to 0 hit points.
Power Word Kill bypasses both of these restrictions by killing the Druid rather than dealing damage or reducing its hit points to zero. Returning the Druid to life (or preventing its death) is not one of the things that Wild Shape does.
This is basically the same argument as the one for massive damage, except that there's definitely no sequencing of events. The Druid dies, and Wild Shape doesn't protect you from dying. Game over.
House ruling options are slim here. Killing a druid for using a utility form is harsh. On the other hand, relegating a 9th level spell to "knock a druid out of wildshape once" is also pretty rough.
Does the druids combined HP matter or just the wild-shapes HP?
Just the Wild Shape's. Wild Shape says:
When you transform, you assume the beast's hit point and Hit Dice.
Like most of your other stats, your old hit point total "goes away" while you're in beast form. Your hit points are the beast's hit points.
With that said, adding beast hit points to caster hit points, or using the Druid's base hit points for spells such as Power Word Kill may be a useful house rule.
This ruling is confirmed in the Sage Advice Compendium, the source of official rulings from WotC:
What happens if I’m polymorphed or Wild Shaped into a creature with fewer than 100 hit points and then I’m targeted by power word kill?
You die.
Jeremy Crawford
This has been confirmed by Jeremy Crawford:
If a druid wildshapes into a wolf and is then targeted with power word kill does the druid revert dead or alive?
If you have 100 hp or fewer, power word kill causes you to die. Notice that it doesn't say you drop to 0 hp.
So what is PHB pg. 66 "You automatically revert if.....drop to 0hp, *or Die* ." telling us? Form dies, Druid reverts, yes?
Beast form ends if the druid dies; things like power word kill can end you without reducing hit points.
A creature typically can't determine another creature's remaining hit points
However, a creature can come close using spells like deathwatch and detect animals and plants, and optional rules like Wound Thresholds will allow more accurate guesses as to a creature's hp, but, overall, a creature's current hp is usually information possessed only by the GM.
Since Pathfinder monsters typically have a predictable number of hp based on CR, a successful Knowledge skill check may give a canny player a means to guess at a particular monster's hit points and, further, allow the PC to glean as "a piece of useful information" how many Hit Dice the creature possesses, if the GM's comfortable revealing that as one of the creature's "special powers or vulnerabilities."
The advantage of the power word spells is that they are ranged spells with no saving throws, a virtual saving throw being provided by the creature's remaining hp. And, while I know the power word spells' disadvantages are many, a caster that knows one or more of such spells and also knows a monster's remaining hp eliminates any guesswork in a way that's superior to the typical caster knowing a monster's current actual Fort, Ref, and Will saving throw bonuses! If a hp determination technique's available, a power word spell's caster no longer need guess and can word foes with impunity. Hence, unless a special ability or spell grants such an ability, I'd advise against a house rule permitting a creature to determine another creature's hp.
Best Answer
It means current hit points.
When the phrase "hit points" is used without the word "current" or "maximum" associated with it, it means "current hit points." This is clarified by the rules in the Damage and Healing section of the Player's Handbook (p. 196, emphasis mine):
So, when an effect applies to the maximum, it will always say so. If it doesn't say "maximum," it's talking about current hit points, even if the word "current" isn't actually there. (Also, as a sidenote: the PHB never uses the phrase "maximum hit points." It always uses "hit point maximum.")