5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DONNY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɒni/

Noun

Don; bloke; dude; any man.

“Big up that donny for giving man a free meal.”

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 DONNY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DONNY 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 63.6% of games, misses completely in 36.4%, and leaves about 381 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,085 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__N_ D in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SATER SLART CARSE ARIEL SAULT
Words starting with D Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
381 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DONNY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#10,085 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DONNY ranks #10,085 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
766
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
18
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
37%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

859
230
185
142
124
123
95
57
48
41
39
33
26
25
24
22
18
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8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DONNY:

36% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SATER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.4% →
SLATE 6.38 bits
9.8% →
SATER 5.24 bits
7.8% →
SLART 4.90 bits
6.0% →
CARSE 4.88 bits
5.3% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
5.2% →
ARIEL 5.32 bits
4.0% →
SAULT 4.88 bits
2.4% →
SAICE 4.69 bits
2.0% →
ARSON 4.45 bits
1.7% →
STOLE 3.56 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1N1N1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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