5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DOVEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Alternative form of daven.

Verb

past participle of dive

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 DOVEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOVEN 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,681 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___N D in the 1st position and N in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SAINT STAIR SALTY SEINE LEARE
Words starting with D Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOVEN 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,681 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOVEN ranks #5,681 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
844
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
10
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

487
374
159
157
144
119
74
61
57
52
36
34
29
29
29
27
25
24
24
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOVEN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
SLART 6.06 bits
15.9% →
SLART 5.97 bits
6.7% →
SAINT 5.27 bits
6.7% →
SLART 5.12 bits
6.1% →
STAIR 4.55 bits
5.0% →
SALTY 4.54 bits
3.1% →
SEINE 4.62 bits
2.6% →
LEARE 4.57 bits
2.4% →
LURID 4.70 bits
2.2% →
SLART 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1V4E1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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