5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DERED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of dere

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 DERED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DERED 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,749 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___D D in the 1st position and D in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT COAST SAINT SHALT ALOUD TOADY
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DERED 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,749 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DERED ranks #11,749 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
307
6 guesses
26
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
35%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

739
293
261
112
107
92
74
73
45
39
37
32
31
26
26
23
23
22
21
18
18
18
15
12
11
10
10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DERED:

31% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
SLANT 5.96 bits
12.4% →
SLANT 5.75 bits
11.1% →
COAST 5.39 bits
4.7% →
COAST 4.85 bits
4.5% →
SAINT 3.65 bits
3.9% →
COAST 4.82 bits
3.1% →
SAINT 4.41 bits
3.1% →
SHALT 4.71 bits
1.9% →
ALOUD 4.20 bits
1.7% →
TOADY 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1R1E1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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