5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

DUNCE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dʌns/

Noun

An unintelligent person.

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 DUNCE performs as a guess

DUNCE 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #676 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__C_ D in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SLART SORAL ARIEL LAIRY
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.86 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.09 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DUNCE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#676 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DUNCE ranks #676 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,018
4 guesses
1,100
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
14
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:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
F E T C H
D U N C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DUNCE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
290
195
137
100
81
76
74
72
54
54
44
41
36
35
33
31
30
27
25
25
24
22
21
19
19
15
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUNCE:

19% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
12% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
ROAST 6.14 bits
12.3% →
SOLAR 5.26 bits
8.3% →
SLART 5.40 bits
5.8% →
ROAST 5.34 bits
4.2% →
SORAL 5.25 bits
3.4% →
ARIEL 4.44 bits
3.2% →
SLART 4.33 bits
3.1% →
SLART 5.05 bits
3.1% →
LAIRY 4.92 bits
2.3% →
SHALT 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2U1N1C3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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