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

DEELY

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

Check DEELY 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 DEELY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEELY 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 247 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,786 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 DEELY 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.

4.35 Entropy (bits)
247 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DEELY 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,786 Rank among openers
Opening with DEELY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,786 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
37%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

DEELY can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

579 answers
366 answers
217 answers
174 answers
105 answers
70 answers
65 answers
56 answers
53 answers
45 answers
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11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1E1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing DEELY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEELY:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4%
ROAST 6.08 bits
15.4%
STAIR 5.48 bits
9.1%
COAST 5.22 bits
7.3%
SAUNT 4.74 bits
4.4%
VAIRE 4.45 bits
2.9%
HOARD 4.87 bits
2.7%
STAIR 4.67 bits
2.4%
RAINE 4.55 bits
2.2%
SHART 4.92 bits
1.9%
SIREN 4.44 bits

Research on DEELY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DEELY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,729 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 DEELY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DEELEE.

Rhymes with FEELY MEALY SEELY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DEELY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).