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DADAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dada

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 DADAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DADAS 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 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 395 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,989 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__A_ D in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DADAS.

First-turn measures

All four describe DADAS 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.

3.49 Entropy (bits)
395 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DADAS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,989 Rank among openers
Opening with DADAS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #13,989 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
599
4 guesses
1,322
5 guesses
370
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
27%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

DADAS can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

820 answers
349 answers
243 answers
196 answers
121 answers
98 answers
88 answers
71 answers
50 answers
39 answers
34 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
19 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1D2A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TOILE ROUET ALERT TONER THALE URINE

Strategy after playing DADAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DADAS:

35% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
10% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
TOILE 5.99 bits
14.7% →
ROUET 5.44 bits
10.2% →
ALERT 5.35 bits
8.3% →
TONER 4.88 bits
5.1% →
THALE 4.53 bits
4.1% →
URINE 5.13 bits
3.7% →
CRUET 4.53 bits
3.0% →
TOILE 4.92 bits
2.1% →
STOPE 3.97 bits
1.6% →
BLORE 4.61 bits

Research on DADAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DADAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,645 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 DADAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90; proven optimal play reaches 3.89. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DAYDUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DADAS is a kind of father or front.

Synonyms dad pop pa DADDY papa

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DADAS 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).