5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

DILLY

DILLY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪli/

Adjective

Redolent of dill (the herb).

Noun

Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.

Noun

A dilly bag.

Adjective

Silly; characteristic of a dill.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 DILLY performs as a guess

DILLY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 361 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,538 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TRINE SOARE RANSE ARENE RONTE
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.91 Entropy (bits)
361 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DILLY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,538 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DILLY ranks #9,538 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
19
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
1 vowels
Common:
IL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
32%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B A W D Y
D I L L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DILLY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

814
249
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170
100
98
60
46
43
41
41
34
28
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DILLY:

35% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
TARSE 6.46 bits
10.6% →
TRINE 5.55 bits
10.5% →
SOARE 5.31 bits
7.2% →
RANSE 4.84 bits
4.2% →
ARENE 5.37 bits
4.2% →
RONTE 4.83 bits
2.5% →
CRANE 4.46 bits
2.0% →
ROATE 4.33 bits
1.8% →
ORATE 4.67 bits
1.7% →
PAUSE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1L1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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