5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DELFT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: [dɛɫft]

Noun

Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).

Noun

A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.

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 DELFT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DELFT 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,318 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___T D in the 1st position and T in the 5th position D__F_ D in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SONAR SLAIN SLANE TARTE ROANY RANSE
Words starting with D Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELFT 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,318 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELFT ranks #4,318 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
894
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
189
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

425
325
180
167
116
107
99
78
76
64
45
44
33
32
30
28
27
26
25
24
21
21
21
20
17
17
16
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELFT:

18% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
14% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
SONAR 5.77 bits
13.8% →
SONAR 5.61 bits
7.6% →
SLAIN 5.02 bits
7.1% →
SONAR 5.15 bits
4.9% →
SLANE 4.45 bits
4.5% →
TARTE 4.75 bits
4.2% →
SONAR 4.89 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.92 bits
3.2% →
RANSE 4.71 bits
2.7% →
ARISE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1F4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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