Possible answer Not used yet B tier for first-turn info

DROIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹɔɪt/

Noun

A legal right or entitlement.

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 DROIT performs as a guess

DROIT 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #101 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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

All four describe DROIT 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DROIT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#101 Rank among openers
Opening with DROIT left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.56 average. It ranks #101 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,071
4 guesses
1,053
5 guesses
148
6 guesses
9
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:
IORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
36%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S N O U T
D R O I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DROIT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DROIT can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

392 answers
199 answers
163 answers
125 answers
122 answers
87 answers
86 answers
74 answers
62 answers
61 answers
54 answers
54 answers
47 answers
44 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1O1I1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing DROIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DROIT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEASE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5%
SLANE 6.26 bits
8.4%
LEASE 5.28 bits
6.9%
SLANE 5.35 bits
5.3%
TASTE 5.35 bits
5.1%
COLEY 5.06 bits
3.7%
MARSE 4.30 bits
3.6%
SLANE 4.71 bits
3.1%
SLANE 5.11 bits
2.6%
SLANE 4.91 bits
2.6%
SPACE 4.81 bits

Research on DROIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with DROIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #278 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 DROIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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 DROYT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DROIT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).