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DREAM

Yes, DREAM was the Wordle answer on November 5, 2022 (Wordle #504).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɹiːm/[ˈdɹ̝ʷɪi̯m][ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷɪi̯m]

Noun

Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

“have a dream”

Noun

A hope or wish.

“have a dream”

Verb

To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.

“Although people primarily dream during the REM phase of sleeping, they can dream during non-REM sleep as well.”

Verb

To hope, to wish.

“Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she grows up.”

Alternative forms: dreame

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 5, 2022 (#504).

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How DREAM performs as a guess

DREAM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,088 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___M D in the 1st position and M in the 5th position D__A_ D in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _R__M R in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DREAM.

First-turn measures

All four describe DREAM used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DREAM 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,088 Rank among openers
Opening with DREAM left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,088 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
C R E A M
D R E A M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DREAM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DREAM can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

353 answers
228 answers
219 answers
160 answers
140 answers
99 answers
68 answers
67 answers
67 answers
64 answers
64 answers
46 answers
45 answers
38 answers
38 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1E1A1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

HOIST SLANT TOILE SOREE STALE TORUS

Strategy after playing DREAM

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DREAM.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DREAM:

15% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
HOIST 5.84 bits
9.6% →
SLANT 5.45 bits
9.2% →
TOILE 5.43 bits
6.7% →
SOREE 4.55 bits
5.9% →
STALE 5.05 bits
4.2% →
TORUS 5.14 bits
2.9% →
PRINT 4.09 bits
2.8% →
SLEET 4.99 bits
2.8% →
RATIO 4.15 bits
2.7% →
MUSTY 4.77 bits

Research on DREAM

Game-tree analysis and word research for DREAM, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with DREAM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,443 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DREAM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it DREEM.

Rhymes with CREAM THEME STEAM CREME GLEAM

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DREAM is a kind of imagination or vision.

Synonyms dreaming ambition aspiration

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DREAM sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 81 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 51 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.9 of 5).

In a sentence

That is just a dream.
© tatoeba.org contributor ravensfeather (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Was it all a dream?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).