5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DAMNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dæmz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of damn

Noun

plural of damn

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 DAMNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DAMNS 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 183 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,552 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__N_ D in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ROUET ALERT CLOTE STALE ROULE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
183 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DAMNS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#2,552 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DAMNS ranks #2,552 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

477
243
232
141
129
108
101
76
68
56
51
50
44
41
39
33
32
30
30
28
23
22
18
17
16
16
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DAMNS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
10% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
TOILE 6.00 bits
10.3% →
ROUET 5.50 bits
9.8% →
ALERT 5.54 bits
6.0% →
TOILE 5.26 bits
5.5% →
CLOTE 4.70 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.95 bits
4.3% →
ROULE 5.25 bits
3.2% →
POIRE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
GOIER 4.71 bits
2.4% →
ROUET 4.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1M3N1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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