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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

DECOY

Yes, DECOY was the Wordle answer on July 16, 2024 (Wordle #1123).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdiːkɔɪ/

Noun

A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.

Noun

A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.

Verb

To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.

Verb

To act as, or use, a decoy.

“As they were being decoyed, the rescue team carried the hostage and quietly slipped away.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 16, 2024 (#1123).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DECOY performs as a guess

DECOY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 180 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,354 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__O_ D in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SLANT ROAST SAINT CHAIR STORE
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.57 Entropy (bits)
180 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DECOY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,354 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DECOY ranks #6,354 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
201
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
D E C O Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DECOY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

407
352
164
155
141
124
117
81
81
78
59
50
47
32
32
25
21
20
19
16
16
15
15
14
14
14
14
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DECOY:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
7% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
SLART 5.73 bits
14.9% →
SLANT 6.28 bits
7.0% →
ROAST 5.23 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 4.91 bits
6.0% →
CHAIR 5.18 bits
5.3% →
STORE 4.45 bits
5.0% →
STAIR 4.81 bits
3.4% →
STAIR 4.21 bits
3.4% →
TRACE 4.92 bits
3.3% →
RAINE 4.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1C3O1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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