5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DENTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɛnts/

Noun

plural of dent

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dent

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 DENTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DENTS 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__T_ D in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SHALY TAROT SPARE GRAIN
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DENTS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#1,736 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DENTS ranks #1,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
965
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
152
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
25%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
257
151
130
115
103
91
82
81
76
68
65
54
49
45
44
36
29
28
27
25
25
21
21
20
19
18
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DENTS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHALY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
CAROL 6.14 bits
10.9% →
RAILE 5.20 bits
6.4% →
SHALY 5.05 bits
5.5% →
TAROT 5.14 bits
4.9% →
SPARE 4.87 bits
4.4% →
GRAIN 5.27 bits
3.9% →
TALER 4.80 bits
3.5% →
ROAST 4.65 bits
3.4% →
LEARE 4.73 bits
3.2% →
BOARD 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1N1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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