5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DEWED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Full of, or covered in, dew

Verb

simple past and past participle of dew

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 DEWED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DEWED 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 57.4% of games, misses completely in 42.6%, and leaves about 523 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,257 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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

COAST SLART SOLAR SLANT LAIRY RADIO
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.30 Entropy (bits)
523 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DEWED 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,257 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DEWED ranks #14,257 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
577
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
440
6 guesses
13
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
30%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1004
396
165
121
85
68
48
44
43
41
37
30
30
23
23
16
16
13
12
10
10
10
9
9
8
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DEWED:

43% chance
Suggested:
COAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.6% →
COAST 5.83 bits
16.8% →
SLART 5.62 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.52 bits
5.1% →
SLART 4.95 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
2.9% →
LAIRY 4.34 bits
2.0% →
LAIRY 4.28 bits
1.9% →
RADIO 4.54 bits
1.8% →
STEER 4.14 bits
1.7% →
ARISE 3.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2E1W4E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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