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

DEASH

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To remove the ash from.

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

Use DEASH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% 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 DEASH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEASH 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,858 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 DEASH 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DEASH 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,858 Rank among openers
Opening with DEASH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,858 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

DEASH can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

300 answers
263 answers
229 answers
132 answers
129 answers
89 answers
83 answers
67 answers
66 answers
62 answers
55 answers
49 answers
48 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1A1S1H4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing DEASH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEASH:

13% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
COUNT 5.64 bits
11.0% →
TRONE 5.23 bits
9.6% →
TALON 5.33 bits
5.5% →
ALTER 4.71 bits
5.4% →
SNOUT 4.91 bits
3.7% →
REBEL 4.32 bits
3.5% →
TRIPE 4.49 bits
2.8% →
CRINE 4.09 bits
2.8% →
RIONE 4.67 bits
2.6% →
TOUCH 4.21 bits

Research on DEASH

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

Optimal play

Opening with DEASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,546 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 DEASH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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).