5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DRAVE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past of drive

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 DRAVE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DRAVE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__V_ D in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY NATAL SLEET SEITY TORUS SLANT
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.04 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DRAVE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#4,880 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DRAVE ranks #4,880 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
891
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
236
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
38%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
203
162
131
128
111
98
77
77
63
56
51
50
42
41
34
34
28
26
26
23
22
22
22
19
17
16
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DRAVE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
NATAL
7% chance
Suggested:
SLEET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SOILY 5.69 bits
8.6% →
NATAL 5.09 bits
6.9% →
SLEET 5.32 bits
5.6% →
SOILY 4.63 bits
5.4% →
SEITY 4.08 bits
4.7% →
TORUS 5.19 bits
4.2% →
SLANT 4.65 bits
3.3% →
CAROL 4.54 bits
3.3% →
PRINT 4.07 bits
2.7% →
CLEAN 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1A1V4E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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