Possible answer Not used yet B tier for first-turn info

DAILY

DAILY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪli//ˈɖeli//ˈɖɛjli/

Adjective

That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.

“daily life”

Noun

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

Verb

To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.

Verb

To use, especially of a computer or operating system, for everyday tasks.

Alternative forms: dayly

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 DAILY performs as a guess

DAILY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,027 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe DAILY 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DAILY 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,027 Rank among openers
Opening with DAILY 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 3.64 average. It ranks #3,027 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
41%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D I M L Y
D A I L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DAILY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DAILY can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

446 answers
252 answers
150 answers
130 answers
123 answers
121 answers
120 answers
102 answers
57 answers
48 answers
45 answers
42 answers
40 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1I1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing DAILY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DAILY:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
11% chance
Suggested:
STARE
6% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8%
TORSE 6.41 bits
10.6%
STARE 5.65 bits
6.3%
RONTE 5.40 bits
5.5%
CORSE 4.88 bits
5.2%
TRONE 5.15 bits
5.1%
REACT 4.74 bits
5.1%
CONTE 4.84 bits
4.3%
SMORE 4.71 bits
2.4%
FROND 4.55 bits
2.0%
STRAE 4.03 bits

Research on DAILY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DAILY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,942 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 DAILY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 DAYLEE.

Rhymes with GAILY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DAILY is a kind of paper.

Synonyms everyday casual informal periodic periodical

Opposites formal

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DAILY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 117 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.

In a sentence

I go to school daily.
© tatoeba.org contributor Vanilla (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I love my daily life.
© tatoeba.org contributor dressguard (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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.