5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

DEMIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪt/

Verb

To let fall; to depress; to yield.

Verb

To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun

The act of demitting.

Noun

A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

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 DEMIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEMIT 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,317 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.
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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__I_ D in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DEMIT.

First-turn measures

All four describe DEMIT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.86 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DEMIT 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,317 Rank among openers
Opening with DEMIT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,317 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
893
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

DEMIT can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

401 answers
330 answers
144 answers
131 answers
105 answers
98 answers
96 answers
82 answers
81 answers
70 answers
56 answers
52 answers
50 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1M3I1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SOLAR SONLY SOUTH CARLE RINSE

Strategy after playing DEMIT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DEMIT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEMIT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SALON
14% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
6% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
SALON 5.95 bits
13.9% →
SOLAR 5.52 bits
6.1% →
SONLY 4.80 bits
5.5% →
SOUTH 4.95 bits
4.4% →
CARLE 4.58 bits
4.1% →
RINSE 4.91 bits
4.0% →
TARSE 4.76 bits
3.5% →
SONAR 4.90 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
2.9% →
CLARY 4.75 bits

Research on DEMIT

Game-tree analysis and word research for DEMIT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with DEMIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,909 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DEMIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DEHMIHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DEMIT sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).