5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DOULA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈduːlə/

Noun

A trained support person who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.

Noun

A trained person who provides similar support to someone who is diagnosed with an incurable condition and is receiving end-of-life care.

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 DOULA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOULA 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,010 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___A D in the 1st position and A in the 5th position D__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SIENT TRINE SNARE SIREN TRONE
Words starting with D Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOULA 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,010 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOULA ranks #4,010 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
218
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ALOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

366
350
158
154
130
126
98
64
56
55
48
45
43
38
33
29
29
28
25
25
22
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOULA:

16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5% →
TARSE 5.71 bits
14.8% →
SIENT 5.94 bits
6.7% →
TRINE 5.40 bits
6.5% →
SNARE 4.68 bits
5.5% →
SIREN 5.02 bits
5.3% →
TRONE 4.57 bits
4.2% →
SIREN 4.70 bits
2.7% →
BARON 4.81 bits
2.4% →
RAINE 4.52 bits
2.3% →
TRINE 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1U1L1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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