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

DATAL

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Being or relating to a dataler; hired and paid on a daily basis.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use DATAL in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How DATAL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DATAL 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,306 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 DATAL 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DATAL 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,306 Rank among openers
Opening with DATAL left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,306 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
12

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
30%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

DATAL can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

569 answers
273 answers
200 answers
162 answers
118 answers
104 answers
81 answers
79 answers
53 answers
50 answers
47 answers
47 answers
45 answers
42 answers
38 answers
37 answers
34 answers
26 answers
24 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1T1A1L1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing DATAL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DATAL:

24% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
11% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
8% chance
Suggested:
SOUCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
NOISE 6.01 bits
11.5% →
SIREN 5.63 bits
8.4% →
SOUCE 5.18 bits
6.8% →
CRANE 5.43 bits
4.9% →
CORSE 4.90 bits
4.4% →
URINE 5.29 bits
3.4% →
SLANE 4.47 bits
3.3% →
REAST 4.79 bits
2.2% →
PROLE 4.12 bits
2.1% →
NOIRE 5.04 bits

Research on DATAL

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

Optimal play

Opening with DATAL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,969 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 DATAL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).