5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DESIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of desi

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 DESIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DESIS 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 79.4% of games, misses completely in 20.6%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__I_ D in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ALTER SLART PRINT LEARE TRINE
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.23 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DESIS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#10,910 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DESIS ranks #10,910 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
21
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:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

485
369
191
182
142
140
112
77
75
61
60
32
31
30
27
23
22
21
18
16
16
16
15
14
12
12
12
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DESIS:

21% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.6% →
CAROL 5.99 bits
15.6% →
ALTER 5.41 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.22 bits
7.7% →
PRINT 4.89 bits
6.0% →
SLART 4.89 bits
5.9% →
LEARE 4.66 bits
4.7% →
TRINE 4.71 bits
3.3% →
ANTIC 4.64 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.80 bits
2.6% →
STINK 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1S1I1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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