5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DANIO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.

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 DANIO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DANIO 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,444 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___O D in the 1st position and O in the 5th position D__I_ D in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

SLEER REAST TORSE STILE LATER CORAL
Words starting with D Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.92 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DANIO 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#4,444 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DANIO ranks #4,444 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
915
4 guesses
1,130
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AINO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
28%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

307
287
269
209
162
69
69
64
60
57
36
35
35
34
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32
28
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23
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DANIO:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
12% chance
Suggested:
REAST
11% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.0% →
SLEER 5.81 bits
12.2% →
REAST 5.58 bits
11.4% →
TORSE 5.40 bits
8.9% →
STILE 5.39 bits
6.9% →
LATER 4.55 bits
2.9% →
TORSE 4.44 bits
2.9% →
CORAL 4.45 bits
2.7% →
STILE 4.10 bits
2.5% →
SLEET 4.74 bits
2.4% →
LEAST 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1N1I1O1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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