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

DADLA

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

No dictionary definition for DADLA is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 DADLA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DADLA 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 418 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,589 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 DADLA 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.

3.54 Entropy (bits)
418 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DADLA 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#13,589 Rank among openers
Opening with DADLA left 2 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,589 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
649
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
382
6 guesses
18
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:
AL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
27%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

DADLA can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

882 answers
278 answers
228 answers
190 answers
146 answers
85 answers
84 answers
64 answers
47 answers
43 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1D2L1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing DADLA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DADLA:

37% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
10% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.2%
TOISE 6.14 bits
11.7%
TRACE 5.64 bits
9.6%
NOISE 5.05 bits
8.0%
CONTE 4.91 bits
6.1%
REACT 4.64 bits
3.6%
SUITE 4.56 bits
3.5%
URINE 5.00 bits
2.7%
ROUET 4.93 bits
2.0%
SNORE 4.61 bits
1.8%
SOLER 4.21 bits

Research on DADLA

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

Optimal play

Opening with DADLA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,260 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 DADLA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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.

How it sounds

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

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.