Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

DINTS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dint

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use DINTS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How DINTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DINTS 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 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,126 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe DINTS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DINTS 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,126 Rank among openers
Opening with DINTS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,126 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
1,013
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

DINTS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

525 answers
225 answers
176 answers
127 answers
111 answers
102 answers
101 answers
61 answers
61 answers
61 answers
55 answers
47 answers
47 answers
46 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1N1T1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing DINTS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DINTS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DINTS:

22% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
CARLE 6.30 bits
9.4% →
PARLE 5.72 bits
7.4% →
CARET 5.55 bits
5.3% →
CARLE 5.27 bits
4.7% →
CARLE 5.45 bits
4.3% →
ALURE 5.30 bits
4.2% →
REAST 4.88 bits
2.6% →
PARLE 4.70 bits
2.6% →
CAGEY 4.62 bits
2.6% →
GRACE 4.52 bits

Research on DINTS

Game-tree analysis and word research for DINTS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with DINTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,845 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DINTS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).