5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DIANA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /daɪˈænə/

Proper noun

The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.

Proper noun

78 Diana, a main belt asteroid.

Noun

A Diana monkey.

Noun

A Diana fritillary.

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 DIANA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DIANA 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,821 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__N_ D in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL TALER STILE CLOSE SOLER SCOTE
Words starting with D Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.37 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DIANA 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,821 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DIANA ranks #8,821 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
802
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
33%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

593
297
184
181
118
103
72
68
52
48
46
41
40
37
36
32
24
21
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17
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DIANA:

25% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
SOREL 6.13 bits
12.6% →
TALER 5.63 bits
7.8% →
STILE 5.34 bits
7.7% →
CLOSE 5.05 bits
5.0% →
SOLER 5.07 bits
4.4% →
SCOTE 4.23 bits
3.1% →
ERODE 4.80 bits
2.9% →
SOGER 4.64 bits
2.2% →
STOLE 4.36 bits
2.0% →
RONTE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1A1N1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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