5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DHABA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A roadside restaurant in South Asia.

Noun

Any restaurant that serves Punjabi food.

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 DHABA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DHABA 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 65.1% of games, misses completely in 34.9%, and leaves about 381 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,914 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___A D in the 1st position and A in the 5th position D__B_ D in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _H__A H in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SIREN TALER SLICE RIONE CLOTE TOILE
Words starting with D Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.67 Entropy (bits)
381 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DHABA 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#11,914 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DHABA ranks #11,914 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
17
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:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
25%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

822
349
171
134
131
110
91
73
51
48
35
33
25
25
20
19
17
15
15
15
14
12
11
10
9
7
7
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DHABA:

35% chance
Suggested:
SIREN
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.9% →
SIREN 6.02 bits
14.8% →
TALER 5.57 bits
7.3% →
SLICE 5.16 bits
5.7% →
RIONE 5.31 bits
5.6% →
CLOTE 4.99 bits
4.7% →
TOILE 5.30 bits
3.9% →
STIRE 5.23 bits
3.1% →
NOIRE 5.12 bits
2.2% →
RAILE 4.42 bits
2.0% →
BLORE 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2H4A1B3A1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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