5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DABBA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 75.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɖəb.bɑ//ɖɪb.bɑ//ˈdʌb.ə/

Noun

A kind of lunchbox or food container.

Noun

del, the partial difference symbol ∂

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 DABBA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DABBA 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 55.7% of games, misses completely in 44.3%, and leaves about 571 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,437 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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.

D___A D in the 1st position and A in the 5th position D__B_ D in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLATE TORSE RIONE TOILE TRINE
Words starting with D Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.01 Entropy (bits)
571 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DABBA 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,437 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DABBA ranks #14,437 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
557
4 guesses
1,312
5 guesses
428
6 guesses
29
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
22%
All gray
44%

Feedback distribution

49 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1044
404
214
147
104
78
56
35
29
22
20
20
19
16
14
14
12
12
12
9
8
8
7
4
4
3
3
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DABBA:

44% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.3% →
TOISE 6.03 bits
17.1% →
SLATE 5.59 bits
9.1% →
TORSE 4.89 bits
6.2% →
RIONE 5.29 bits
4.4% →
TOILE 5.15 bits
3.3% →
TOILE 4.95 bits
2.4% →
TRINE 4.64 bits
1.5% →
SLATE 4.28 bits
1.2% →
CLOTE 4.05 bits
0.9% →
ROUET 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1B3B3A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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