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

DIRER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of dire: more dire

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 DIRER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DIRER 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,605 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___R D in the 1st position and R in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__R I in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position DI_ER D in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DIRER 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DIRER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,605 Rank among openers
Opening with DIRER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,605 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
888
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
15
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

DIRER can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

479 answers
319 answers
182 answers
150 answers
116 answers
93 answers
88 answers
85 answers
73 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
42 answers
37 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1R1E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

SLANT SLATE COAST TRACE SALTY TONAL

Strategy after playing DIRER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DIRER:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
SLANT 5.92 bits
13.4% →
SLATE 5.84 bits
7.7% →
SLANT 5.65 bits
6.3% →
COAST 5.45 bits
4.9% →
TRACE 4.90 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.63 bits
3.7% →
COAST 3.57 bits
3.6% →
SALTY 4.32 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.56 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.75 bits

Research on DIRER

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

Optimal play

Opening with DIRER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,042 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 DIRER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 DYURR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms terrible AWFUL desperate horrific frightening dreadful

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DIRER 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).