5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DOWED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /daʊd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of dow

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 DOWED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOWED 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 SHALT SNORE
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.83 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOWED 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#13,056 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOWED ranks #13,056 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
653
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
353
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

640
469
216
188
148
84
54
53
38
34
32
31
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26
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21
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOWED:

27% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
20% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
SAINT 6.05 bits
19.9% →
SLART 5.82 bits
9.2% →
ARSON 5.15 bits
8.0% →
STAIR 4.59 bits
6.3% →
SHALT 4.36 bits
3.6% →
SNORE 4.31 bits
2.3% →
SHALT 5.08 bits
2.2% →
GEARE 4.36 bits
1.6% →
LAIRY 4.12 bits
1.4% →
MOVER 2.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1W4E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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