5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DELFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of delf

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 DELFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DELFS 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,766 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__F_ D in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ORATE STAIR CAROL AINEE RANCE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELFS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,766 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELFS ranks #6,766 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
21%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

447
313
225
164
158
116
88
84
62
57
41
41
40
33
32
29
29
27
26
21
20
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19
17
15
14
14
13
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELFS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
13% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
10% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
TRAIN 6.00 bits
13.3% →
ORATE 5.30 bits
9.5% →
STAIR 5.29 bits
7.0% →
CAROL 4.84 bits
6.7% →
STAIR 4.84 bits
4.9% →
AINEE 4.61 bits
3.7% →
RANCE 4.70 bits
3.6% →
ROANY 5.00 bits
2.6% →
RAINE 4.69 bits
2.4% →
SHALL 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1F4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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