5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

DEIGN

DEIGN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /deɪn/

Verb

To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe.

Verb

To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe.

“He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.”

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

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 DEIGN performs as a guess

DEIGN 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 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,541 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___N D in the 1st position and N in the 5th position D__G_ D in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST COAST SLART SOARE SAURY SOLAR
Words starting with D Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DEIGN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,541 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEIGN ranks #2,541 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
13
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:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
D E I G N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DEIGN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

502
383
127
123
102
86
60
59
50
45
45
45
44
39
37
32
26
24
24
23
23
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21
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEIGN:

21% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
5% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
ROAST 6.04 bits
16.2% →
ROAST 5.60 bits
5.4% →
COAST 5.16 bits
5.2% →
SLART 4.97 bits
4.3% →
COAST 5.19 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.94 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.75 bits
2.5% →
SAURY 4.73 bits
2.1% →
SLART 4.20 bits
1.9% →
SAURY 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1I1G2N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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