5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

DOWER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ.əɹ/[ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)][ˈdaw.ɚ]

Noun

The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.

Noun

Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage

Verb

To give a dower or dowry to.

Verb

To endow.

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 DOWER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOWER 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,054 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___R D in the 1st position and R in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position DO_ER D in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLANT SLATE SAINT TEASE SALTY SLANE
Words starting with D Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.77 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOWER 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
0.69 Volatility
#4,054 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOWER ranks #4,054 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
11
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
309
173
150
123
107
86
74
64
57
55
49
36
33
29
28
25
22
22
21
21
20
19
18
18
16
16
15
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOWER:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
SLANT 5.98 bits
13.1% →
SLATE 5.80 bits
7.3% →
SAINT 5.24 bits
6.4% →
TEASE 4.73 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
4.5% →
SALTY 4.52 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 3.71 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.78 bits
2.7% →
SAINT 4.28 bits
2.4% →
SLANE 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1W4E1R1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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