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

ADAYS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

In the daytime.

Adverb

Nowadays; in the present time period.

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

Etymology

From Middle English a- + day + -s (“genitive ending”), from Old English a (“on”) + dæges (genitive of "day").

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ADAYS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% 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 ADAYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ADAYS 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,034 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ADAYS 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADAYS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#12,034 Rank among openers
Opening with ADAYS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,034 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
697
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
294
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
20%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

ADAYS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

649 answers
296 answers
257 answers
172 answers
164 answers
125 answers
97 answers
62 answers
61 answers
60 answers
57 answers
48 answers
35 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2A1Y4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ADAYS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADAYS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
12% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
11% chance
Suggested:
RATEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
TRONE 6.13 bits
12.4% →
STIRE 5.47 bits
10.8% →
RATEL 5.49 bits
7.2% →
LOURE 4.64 bits
6.9% →
DINER 5.47 bits
5.2% →
TRICE 5.16 bits
4.1% →
STILE 4.31 bits
2.6% →
BLORE 4.88 bits
2.6% →
TALER 4.61 bits
2.5% →
RONTE 4.00 bits

Research on ADAYS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ADAYS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,556 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ADAYS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ADAYS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).