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

DBAGS

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

No dictionary definition for DBAGS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check DBAGS on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 DBAGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DBAGS 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 253 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,822 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 DBAGS 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
253 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DBAGS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,822 Rank among openers
Opening with DBAGS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,822 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
856
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
22%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

DBAGS can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

578 answers
309 answers
304 answers
118 answers
108 answers
104 answers
95 answers
91 answers
90 answers
62 answers
52 answers
49 answers
48 answers
28 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2B3A1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing DBAGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DBAGS:

24% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3%
TOILE 5.97 bits
13.0%
TOILE 5.39 bits
12.8%
TALER 5.49 bits
5.0%
TRICE 5.14 bits
4.5%
RIONE 5.25 bits
4.4%
TOILE 5.38 bits
4.0%
THALE 4.15 bits
3.8%
TRONE 5.33 bits
3.8%
SALET 4.86 bits
2.6%
TOILE 4.84 bits

Research on DBAGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DBAGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,306 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 DBAGS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it DBAGZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DBAGS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).