5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DESHI

DESHI 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

Noun

a member of a heya ("stable"); trained by its shisho

Noun

disciple, mentee, follower

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 DESHI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DESHI 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,384 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___I D in the 1st position and I in the 5th position D__H_ D in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _E__I E in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

TALON ALTER TRAIN SLANT SLART LEARE
Words starting with D Words ending with I

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DESHI 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,384 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DESHI ranks #6,384 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
16
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:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
18%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

377
324
208
167
116
114
106
103
69
66
58
54
42
37
36
32
31
29
29
26
24
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21
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18
16
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14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DESHI:

16% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TALON 5.87 bits
13.7% →
ALTER 5.41 bits
8.8% →
TRAIN 5.24 bits
7.1% →
SLANT 5.18 bits
4.9% →
SLART 4.92 bits
4.8% →
LEARE 4.72 bits
4.5% →
TRINE 4.65 bits
4.4% →
TORCH 5.18 bits
2.9% →
STINK 4.58 bits
2.8% →
ROANY 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1S1H4I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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