5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DEBUD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To remove the bud or buds from.

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 DEBUD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEBUD 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 381 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,364 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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___D D in the 1st position and D in the 5th position D__U_ D in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST STAIR SONLY SLART STURE RAILE
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
381 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DEBUD 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,364 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEBUD ranks #13,364 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
650
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
372
6 guesses
26
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
23%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

725
535
192
150
82
71
48
43
42
41
40
40
31
27
24
21
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEBUD:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
23% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
ROAST 5.94 bits
22.7% →
STAIR 5.43 bits
8.1% →
SONLY 4.64 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.88 bits
3.5% →
STURE 4.63 bits
3.0% →
ROAST 4.77 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.61 bits
1.8% →
RADIO 4.50 bits
1.8% →
SCOUR 4.37 bits
1.7% →
ROANY 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1B3U1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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