5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DELLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɛlz/

Noun

plural of dell

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 DELLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DELLS 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 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,055 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ORATE STAIR CORAL CARTE ARENE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELLS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,055 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELLS ranks #10,055 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

500
344
244
160
153
102
95
88
68
43
41
32
31
31
30
28
21
21
21
20
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14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELLS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
15% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
10% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2% →
TRAIN 6.00 bits
14.6% →
ORATE 5.29 bits
10.3% →
STAIR 5.26 bits
6.8% →
STAIR 4.84 bits
6.5% →
CORAL 4.98 bits
4.3% →
CARTE 4.53 bits
4.0% →
ARENE 4.46 bits
3.7% →
ROANY 5.00 bits
2.9% →
RAINE 4.70 bits
1.8% →
ROANY 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1L1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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