5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DEMOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdiːmɒs//ˈdiˌmɑs//ˈdiˌmɔs/

Noun

An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.

Noun

The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of demo

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 DEMOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEMOS 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 ALTER SAULT TONAL STAIR LEARE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.64 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DEMOS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,178 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEMOS ranks #5,178 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
857
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
175
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
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
22%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

372
323
202
182
140
127
96
71
61
58
58
57
43
42
41
31
30
28
26
21
20
18
17
16
15
14
14
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEMOS:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
CAIRN 5.91 bits
13.7% →
ALTER 5.47 bits
8.6% →
SAULT 5.34 bits
7.7% →
TONAL 5.11 bits
5.9% →
STAIR 4.89 bits
5.4% →
LEARE 4.58 bits
4.1% →
RONTE 4.51 bits
3.0% →
RAILE 4.85 bits
2.6% →
TALER 4.61 bits
2.5% →
SHART 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1M3O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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