5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

DROWN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɹaʊn/[d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷaʊn]/dɹuːn/

Verb

To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

“When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.”

Verb

To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

“The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.”

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 DROWN performs as a guess

DROWN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 232 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,052 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

D___N D in the 1st position and N in the 5th position D__W_ D in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE SALET LIANE SAULT CASTE TARRE
Words starting with D Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
232 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DROWN 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
#3,052 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DROWN ranks #3,052 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
7

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
D R O W N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DROWN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

588
284
208
142
113
98
95
95
53
47
40
34
32
29
29
23
21
21
21
21
19
19
16
15
14
13
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DROWN:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
9% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
SLATE 6.51 bits
12.0% →
SALET 5.52 bits
8.8% →
LIANE 5.24 bits
6.0% →
SAULT 4.93 bits
4.8% →
CASTE 5.18 bits
4.2% →
TARRE 4.69 bits
4.0% →
SLATE 4.85 bits
4.0% →
LAIDE 5.27 bits
2.2% →
SALET 5.16 bits
2.0% →
BOITE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2R1O1W4N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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