DADDY
Yes, DADDY was the Wordle answer on September 30, 2023 (Wordle #833).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdædi/
- Noun
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Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.
- Noun
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Often in the form the daddy of: the most important or influential man in a field or group; a doyen.
- Verb
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To father (a child); to beget, to sire.
- Adjective
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Characteristic of or resembling a dad or father.
Alternative forms: daddie
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DADEE.
Related meanings
Synonyms dad pop pa papa dada
In a sentence
I don't have a daddy.
Are you my new daddy?
Use DADDY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 77.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 30, 2023 (#833).
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See what the public sample says →DADDY in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #277
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DADDY appeared in ___-O (purple group).
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· Puzzle #275
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DADDY appeared in FAMOUS POEMS (purple group).
How DADDY performs as a guess
DADDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.3% of games, misses completely in 40.7%, and leaves about 535 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,665 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe DADDY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DADDY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches DADDY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.
Feedback distribution
DADDY can come back 46 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DADDY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing DADDY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DADDY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DADDY:
Research on DADDY
Game-tree analysis and word research for DADDY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DADDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.97 guesses and ranks #14,530 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 DADDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.99; proven optimal play reaches 3.97. 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- DADDY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 23 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.