5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DELED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of dele

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 DELED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DELED 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 67.6% of games, misses completely in 32.4%, and leaves about 343 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,266 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__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST COAST STALE SHART SOILY HOARD
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
343 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,266 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELED ranks #13,266 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
684
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
377
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
33%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

765
310
265
140
105
86
62
49
43
43
41
36
34
32
27
23
22
18
17
15
13
11
11
10
10
10
10
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELED:

32% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.4% →
ROAST 6.01 bits
13.1% →
ROAST 5.52 bits
11.2% →
COAST 5.14 bits
5.9% →
ROAST 4.47 bits
4.5% →
STALE 4.65 bits
3.6% →
SHART 4.80 bits
2.6% →
SOILY 4.45 bits
2.1% →
HOARD 4.33 bits
1.8% →
RADIO 4.60 bits
1.8% →
RAINY 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1E1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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