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DENSE

Yes, DENSE was the Wordle answer on April 7, 2026 (Wordle #1753).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɛns/[ˈdɛns]/ˈdɪns/

Adjective

Having relatively high density.

Adjective

Compact; crowded together.

Noun

A thicket.

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: April 7, 2026 (#1753).

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

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How DENSE performs as a guess

DENSE 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,656 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__S_ D in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL SLART TALER GRATE TRAIN LAIRY
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
186 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DENSE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,656 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DENSE ranks #5,656 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,201
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
18
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
39%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
D E N S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DENSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

522
190
177
156
155
92
90
81
67
60
59
47
43
39
35
34
30
27
24
22
20
20
20
20
15
14
14
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DENSE:

22% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
CAROL 6.03 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.11 bits
7.5% →
TALER 5.10 bits
6.6% →
GRATE 4.54 bits
6.6% →
TRAIN 5.38 bits
3.9% →
LAIRY 4.92 bits
3.8% →
SHART 4.49 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
2.8% →
COALY 4.33 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1N1S1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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