5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

DITCH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɪt͡ʃ/

Noun

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

“Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.”

Noun

A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.

Verb

To discard or abandon.

“Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.”

Verb

To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.

“When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.”

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 DITCH performs as a guess

DITCH 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,780 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___H D in the 1st position and H in the 5th position D__C_ D in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

PARLE SOARE SLANE CARLE ALURE SOLER
Words starting with D Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
246 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DITCH 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,780 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DITCH ranks #2,780 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
984
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
25%
All gray
27%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
D E P T H
D I T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DITCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

643
250
171
134
124
86
83
82
56
48
45
40
37
35
34
32
27
26
22
22
19
19
16
16
15
14
14
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DITCH:

27% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
PARLE 6.09 bits
10.6% →
SOARE 5.81 bits
7.3% →
SLANE 5.67 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 5.70 bits
5.3% →
ALURE 5.25 bits
3.6% →
SOLER 4.65 bits
3.5% →
SANER 5.43 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 4.79 bits
2.4% →
SAYER 4.62 bits
2.0% →
LEANY 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1T1C3H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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