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DELTA

Yes, DELTA was the Wordle answer on September 2, 2021 (Wordle #75).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛltə/[ˈdɛɫtə]

Noun

The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.

Noun

A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

“Nile Delta”

Verb

To calculate the differences between the characters in an enciphered text and the characters a fixed number of positions previous.

Verb

To compare two versions of the same file in order to determine where they differ (where a programmer has made edits).

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 2, 2021 (#75).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DELTA performs as a guess

DELTA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.8% of games, misses completely in 11.2%, and leaves about 108 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___A D in the 1st position and A in the 5th position D__T_ D in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__A E in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SCION PROSE CAIRN HOIST SARGE SOILY
Words starting with D Words ending with A

First-turn measures

5.24 Entropy (bits)
108 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DELTA 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,197 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DELTA ranks #2,197 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
175
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:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
25%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E L T A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DELTA in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

265
230
180
137
116
108
92
87
84
75
65
54
53
43
41
39
33
28
27
26
25
22
22
20
20
19
19
18
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DELTA:

11% chance
Suggested:
SCION
10% chance
Suggested:
PROSE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
SCION 5.65 bits
9.8% →
PROSE 5.39 bits
7.6% →
CAIRN 5.17 bits
5.8% →
HOIST 5.38 bits
4.9% →
SARGE 4.65 bits
4.6% →
SOILY 4.54 bits
3.9% →
SNARL 4.10 bits
3.7% →
SCANT 4.62 bits
3.6% →
SIREE 4.94 bits
3.2% →
SOREE 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1L1T1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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