5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DEAWY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Obsolete form of dewy.

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 DEAWY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEAWY 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,119 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__W_ D in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

COURT SIREE TALON TALER SOILY SLART
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DEAWY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,119 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEAWY ranks #10,119 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
19
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
37%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

405
364
224
158
138
130
99
69
69
69
44
44
30
28
26
23
23
22
21
20
18
17
16
15
14
14
13
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12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEAWY:

17% chance
Suggested:
COURT
15% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
COURT 6.03 bits
15.4% →
SIREE 5.37 bits
9.5% →
TALON 5.35 bits
6.7% →
TALER 4.77 bits
5.9% →
SOILY 4.22 bits
5.5% →
SLART 4.71 bits
4.2% →
SIREN 4.61 bits
2.9% →
SAINT 3.94 bits
2.9% →
SLART 3.91 bits
2.9% →
SLIER 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1A1W4Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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