5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

DIRGE

Yes, DIRGE was the Wordle answer on April 18, 2025 (Wordle #1399).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɜːdʒ//dɝd͡ʒ/

Noun

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.

Noun

A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Verb

To sing dirges

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 18, 2025 (#1399).

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

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How DIRGE performs as a guess

DIRGE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,746 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

D___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__G_ D in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SALET SOLAR SLANT SALTY COALY
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.04 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DIRGE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,746 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DIRGE ranks #1,746 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
957
4 guesses
1,134
5 guesses
169
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
D I R G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DIRGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
206
160
157
157
152
74
68
58
52
51
48
45
34
28
25
25
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DIRGE:

17% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
COAST 5.90 bits
8.7% →
SALET 5.35 bits
6.8% →
SOLAR 4.25 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.39 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.54 bits
6.4% →
SLANT 5.53 bits
3.1% →
COAST 4.74 bits
2.9% →
SALTY 4.31 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.28 bits
2.2% →
COALY 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1R1G2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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