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
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That occurs or attends every day, or at least every working day.
“daily life”
- Noun
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Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
- Verb
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To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.
- Verb
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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
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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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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Useful pattern pages
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DAILY; 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 DAILY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DAILY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DAILY:
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.
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.
I love my daily life.
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.