5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DOPED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dəʊpt//doʊpt/

Adjective

Drugged.

“He was so doped after the surgery that it took him 2 hours to remember his name.”

Adjective

Describing a semiconductor that has had small amounts of elements added to create charge carriers.

“The silicon was doped with boron to make a p-type semiconductor.”

Verb

simple past and past participle of dope

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 DOPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOPED 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 76.0% of games, misses completely in 24.0%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,837 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___D D in the 1st position and D in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position DO_ED D in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART ARSON STAIR SALTY STARY
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.08 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOPED 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,837 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOPED ranks #10,837 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
279
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

567
423
205
169
139
109
73
69
50
45
34
34
34
29
27
27
22
20
19
18
17
17
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13
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10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOPED:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.0% →
SAINT 6.13 bits
17.9% →
SLART 5.82 bits
8.7% →
ARSON 5.26 bits
7.2% →
STAIR 4.68 bits
5.9% →
SALTY 4.45 bits
4.6% →
STARY 5.18 bits
3.1% →
SNARE 4.25 bits
2.9% →
STAIR 4.78 bits
2.1% →
GEARE 4.36 bits
1.9% →
MOWER 2.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1P3E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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