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DIOLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of diol

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 DIOLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DIOLS 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #366 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DIOLS.

First-turn measures

All four describe DIOLS 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DIOLS 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#366 Rank among openers
Opening with DIOLS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #366 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,030
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
145
6 guesses
8
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
30%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

DIOLS can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
226 answers
184 answers
179 answers
153 answers
81 answers
80 answers
69 answers
69 answers
65 answers
54 answers
50 answers
49 answers
48 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
34 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1O1L1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CARTE PRATE CARET RANCE CARNE CONTE

Strategy after playing DIOLS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DIOLS:

17% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
10% chance
Suggested:
PRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
CARTE 6.31 bits
9.5% →
PRATE 5.79 bits
7.8% →
CARET 5.47 bits
7.5% →
RANCE 5.36 bits
6.4% →
CARNE 5.55 bits
3.4% →
CONTE 4.35 bits
3.4% →
PRATE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
BRANE 5.02 bits
2.7% →
CRUET 3.98 bits

Research on DIOLS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DIOLS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,177 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 DIOLS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DYUHLZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DIOLS is a kind of alcohol.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DIOLS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).