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DITTO

Yes, DITTO was the Wordle answer on April 24, 2023 (Wordle #674).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ//ˈdɪtoʊ/[ˈdɪɾoʊ]

Noun

That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

Noun

The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

Adverb

As said before, likewise.

Verb

To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.

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 24, 2023 (#674).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 24, 2023 (#674).

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

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How DITTO performs as a guess

DITTO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,030 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___O D in the 1st position and O in the 5th position D__T_ D in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DITTO 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DITTO 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,030 Rank among openers
Opening with DITTO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,030 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
12
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:
IOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
23%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U N C H
D I T T O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DITTO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DITTO can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

652 answers
333 answers
213 answers
180 answers
99 answers
93 answers
80 answers
72 answers
59 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
36 answers
36 answers
28 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2I1T1T1O1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CARLE SLANE LEAST SLYER LEARE ROOST

Strategy after playing DITTO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DITTO:

27% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
CARLE 6.22 bits
14.0% →
CARLE 5.31 bits
9.0% →
SLANE 5.52 bits
7.6% →
LEAST 5.56 bits
4.2% →
SLYER 4.54 bits
3.9% →
LEARE 5.10 bits
3.4% →
ROOST 4.62 bits
3.0% →
SLIER 4.65 bits
2.5% →
ALURE 4.53 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.52 bits

Research on DITTO

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

Optimal play

Opening with DITTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,483 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 DITTO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 DIHTOH.

Rhymes with NITTO

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DITTO is a kind of mark or repeat.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DITTO sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

She accidentally printed out a ditto.
© tatoeba.org contributor swolesuki (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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