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

DAINT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /deɪnt/

Verb

do not, don't

Verb

didn't

Adjective

Dainty.

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 DAINT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DAINT 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #124 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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 DAINT 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.

5.21 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DAINT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#124 Rank among openers
Opening with DAINT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #124 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
1,055
4 guesses
1,064
5 guesses
143
6 guesses
13
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:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

DAINT can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

400 answers
243 answers
129 answers
124 answers
99 answers
96 answers
84 answers
66 answers
65 answers
65 answers
55 answers
53 answers
50 answers
45 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1I1N1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing DAINT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DAINT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
5% chance
Suggested:
SHOER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8%
SOLER 6.01 bits
10.2%
CLOSE 5.38 bits
5.4%
SHOER 5.58 bits
5.2%
SLYER 4.97 bits
4.2%
SILER 5.08 bits
4.0%
CORSE 5.03 bits
3.5%
CLOSE 4.84 bits
2.8%
SLATE 4.79 bits
2.7%
SOREL 4.94 bits
2.7%
ERODE 4.82 bits

Research on DAINT

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

Optimal play

Opening with DAINT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #233 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 DAINT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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

One syllable Say it DAYNT. 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.