5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

DANCE

Yes, DANCE was the Wordle answer on February 5, 2023 (Wordle #596).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɑːns//dans/[däns ~ dans]

Noun

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

“I do a dance when she plays the drums!”

Noun

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

“The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!”

Verb

To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

“I danced with her all night long.”

Verb

To leap or move lightly and rapidly.

“His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke. She accused her political opponent of dancing around the issue instead of confronting it.”

Alternative forms: daunce

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 5, 2023 (#596).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DANCE performs as a guess

DANCE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #609 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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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Useful pattern pages

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

D___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__C_ D in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

MOIST RESET SLART TORSE INGOT SATYR
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.29 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DANCE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#609 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DANCE ranks #609 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
41%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
B O U G H
D A N C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DANCE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

338
213
169
140
104
89
73
73
63
62
52
49
47
47
40
37
37
32
29
28
28
27
24
23
23
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19
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DANCE:

14% chance
Suggested:
MOIST
9% chance
Suggested:
RESET
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
MOIST 5.78 bits
9.0% →
RESET 5.36 bits
7.2% →
SLART 5.50 bits
5.9% →
TORSE 4.70 bits
4.4% →
INGOT 4.84 bits
3.8% →
SATYR 4.30 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.94 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.56 bits
2.7% →
SOULY 4.82 bits
2.6% →
SLIER 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1N1C3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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