5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DENES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dene

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 DENES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DENES 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 200 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,732 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position DE_ES D in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SLART GRATE TRAIN COALY LAIRY
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
200 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DENES 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,732 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DENES ranks #6,732 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
854
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

522
252
213
155
126
120
92
81
67
62
48
39
39
29
28
24
22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DENES:

22% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
GRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
CAROL 6.03 bits
10.7% →
SLART 5.32 bits
9.0% →
GRATE 5.24 bits
6.6% →
TRAIN 5.38 bits
5.3% →
SLART 4.82 bits
5.1% →
COALY 3.89 bits
3.9% →
LAIRY 4.92 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
2.8% →
COALY 4.33 bits
2.6% →
SAUNT 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1N1E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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