5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DAUBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

“dauby wax”

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 DAUBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DAUBY 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 73.8% of games, misses completely in 26.2%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,928 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__B_ D in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE RONTE SLIER STOLE STONE
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DAUBY 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,928 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DAUBY ranks #8,928 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
17
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:
AU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
35%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

618
386
153
138
124
90
84
73
53
50
44
44
42
38
28
27
24
20
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DAUBY:

26% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.2% →
TORSE 6.14 bits
16.4% →
SLATE 5.58 bits
6.5% →
RONTE 4.88 bits
5.9% →
SLIER 5.33 bits
5.3% →
STOLE 4.65 bits
3.8% →
STONE 4.57 bits
3.6% →
SILER 5.15 bits
3.1% →
BLITE 5.03 bits
2.2% →
SLART 3.46 bits
2.1% →
TRINE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1U1B3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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