5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DICKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɪks/

Noun

plural of dick

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dick

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.

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__K_ D in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER STARE TRINE ROATE ALURE PALET
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DICKS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#8,404 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DICKS ranks #8,404 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
212
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
18%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

693
324
189
170
134
100
74
57
55
49
47
38
36
28
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23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DICKS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALER
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4% →
TALER 6.23 bits
13.7% →
STARE 5.73 bits
8.0% →
TRINE 5.66 bits
7.2% →
ROATE 5.64 bits
5.7% →
ALURE 5.37 bits
4.2% →
PALET 4.73 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.53 bits
2.4% →
LATER 4.73 bits
2.3% →
CLONE 4.33 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1C3K5S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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