5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DELOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of delo

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 DELOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DELOS 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,063 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__O_ D in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN TRACE SHART THORN RAINY STAIR
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELOS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,063 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELOS ranks #3,063 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
917
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
190
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
2 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
24%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

288
249
170
151
133
120
108
95
91
61
58
55
54
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46
40
37
37
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELOS:

12% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
CAIRN 5.95 bits
10.6% →
TRACE 5.53 bits
7.2% →
SHART 5.34 bits
6.4% →
THORN 5.09 bits
5.6% →
RAINY 4.79 bits
5.1% →
STAIR 4.87 bits
4.6% →
RAILE 4.47 bits
4.0% →
CARTE 4.57 bits
3.9% →
RONTE 4.51 bits
2.6% →
MANOR 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1O1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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