5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DEETS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /diːts/

Noun

Details.

“Please email me the deets about the party.”

Noun

Dox; a person’s personal information, usually published without their consent.

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 DEETS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEETS 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,103 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__T_ D in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SLAIN TALON SOLAR ROANY
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% 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 DEETS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,103 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEETS ranks #7,103 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
12
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
27%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

504
289
199
185
108
102
99
75
75
58
55
40
36
27
26
26
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23
20
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEETS:

21% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
CAROL 6.06 bits
12.3% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
8.4% →
SLAIN 4.98 bits
7.8% →
TALON 5.13 bits
4.6% →
SOLAR 4.60 bits
4.3% →
ROANY 5.06 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 4.60 bits
3.2% →
TALER 4.68 bits
3.2% →
CLARY 4.83 bits
2.5% →
RAILE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1E1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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