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DANDY

Yes, DANDY was the Wordle answer on October 7, 2022 (Wordle #475).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdæn.di/

Noun

A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

Noun

Something excellent in its class.

Adjective

Like a dandy, foppish.

Adjective

Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.

“That's all fine and dandy, but how much does it cost?”

Alternative forms: dandi, dandie, dandee

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: October 7, 2022 (#475).

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

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How DANDY performs as a guess

DANDY 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 320 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,613 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__D_ D in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE TOISE SILER CLOTE GRISE
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
320 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DANDY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,613 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DANDY ranks #11,613 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
711
4 guesses
1,300
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
34%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
C A D D Y
D A N D Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DANDY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

707
372
192
155
152
88
83
63
47
46
38
36
34
27
24
20
18
18
18
15
13
13
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DANDY:

30% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
TORSE 6.27 bits
15.8% →
SLATE 5.63 bits
8.1% →
TOISE 5.50 bits
6.6% →
SILER 4.49 bits
6.4% →
CLOTE 4.75 bits
3.7% →
GRISE 4.67 bits
3.5% →
SLIER 5.03 bits
2.7% →
TRICE 4.42 bits
2.0% →
TORSE 3.67 bits
2.0% →
POIRE 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1N1D2Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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