5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DOSED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of dose

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 DOSED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOSED 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,547 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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

CAIRN LEARE SLART TALON LATER CLARY
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOSED 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,547 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOSED ranks #11,547 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
720
4 guesses
1,286
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
20
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

447
353
214
175
163
132
122
63
59
47
43
35
34
32
32
29
29
27
24
17
17
16
15
15
15
14
13
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOSED:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
15% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0% →
CAIRN 5.89 bits
15.0% →
LEARE 5.52 bits
9.1% →
SLART 5.28 bits
7.4% →
TALON 5.10 bits
6.9% →
LATER 4.51 bits
5.6% →
SLART 4.96 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.53 bits
2.7% →
PLANE 4.25 bits
2.5% →
SPORT 3.95 bits
2.0% →
GEARE 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1S1E1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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