5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DAVIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvɪt//ˈdævət/

Noun

A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.

Noun

A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.

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 DAVIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DAVIT 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 193 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,714 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___T D in the 1st position and T in the 5th position D__I_ D in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER CLOSE RINSE SHOER SOREL ROULE
Words starting with D Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
193 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DAVIT 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,714 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DAVIT ranks #5,714 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
11
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:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
33%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

487
288
219
146
141
88
82
71
62
62
59
47
46
41
40
38
33
22
20
19
18
17
17
16
14
13
12
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DAVIT:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
12% chance
Suggested:
CLOSE
9% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SOLER 5.97 bits
12.2% →
CLOSE 5.36 bits
9.3% →
RINSE 5.31 bits
6.2% →
SHOER 5.60 bits
6.0% →
SOREL 4.74 bits
3.7% →
ROULE 4.95 bits
3.5% →
SOREL 5.10 bits
3.0% →
SLATE 4.76 bits
2.6% →
TRITE 4.25 bits
2.6% →
LATTE 3.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2A1V4I1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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