Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

DRAWL

DRAWL is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹɔːl//dɹɔl//dɹɑl/

Verb

To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.

Verb

To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.

Noun

A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 DRAWL performs as a guess

DRAWL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,421 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DRAWL 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,421 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DRAWL ranks #3,421 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
7
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
B A T C H
D R A W L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DRAWL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

444
246
194
194
111
108
89
84
63
63
49
42
41
39
38
35
34
32
30
25
24
22
20
20
17
15
14
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DRAWL:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
8% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8%
TOISE 6.12 bits
10.4%
TOISE 5.32 bits
8.2%
NOISE 5.12 bits
8.2%
CONTE 5.23 bits
4.7%
CARER 4.60 bits
4.6%
SPITE 4.83 bits
3.8%
SHUTE 5.00 bits
3.6%
TABLE 4.35 bits
2.7%
SLICE 4.29 bits
2.7%
SUITE 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1A1W4L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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