5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

DUELS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of duel

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of duel

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 DUELS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DUELS 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,439 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___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ROATE ROAST TONAL REATE ROANY
Words starting with D Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DUELS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,439 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DUELS ranks #3,439 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
17
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:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
26%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

373
329
182
147
124
122
67
66
61
56
54
42
40
40
38
37
34
32
32
27
21
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUELS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
TRAIN 6.03 bits
14.0% →
ROATE 5.31 bits
7.7% →
ROAST 5.37 bits
6.2% →
TONAL 5.07 bits
5.3% →
ROATE 4.84 bits
5.2% →
REATE 4.76 bits
2.8% →
ROANY 4.93 bits
2.8% →
RAINY 3.98 bits
2.6% →
COURT 4.96 bits
2.4% →
TRACE 4.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2U1E1L1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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