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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

DUNGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dung

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of dung

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 DUNGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DUNGS 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,299 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__G_ D in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DUNGS 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
303 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DUNGS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,299 Rank among openers
Opening with DUNGS left 2 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,299 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
20%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

DUNGS can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

710 answers
349 answers
170 answers
135 answers
87 answers
86 answers
78 answers
72 answers
67 answers
63 answers
54 answers
50 answers
34 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2U1N1G2S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CARTE STALE ARIEL CLOTE CARLE COLEY

Strategy after playing DUNGS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUNGS:

30% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
15% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
CARTE 6.28 bits
14.7% →
STALE 5.73 bits
7.2% →
ARIEL 5.53 bits
5.7% →
ARIEL 5.61 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 5.26 bits
3.6% →
CLOTE 5.28 bits
3.3% →
CARLE 4.50 bits
3.0% →
COLEY 4.59 bits
2.8% →
TIARE 4.64 bits
2.7% →
ARIEL 5.13 bits

Research on DUNGS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DUNGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,520 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 DUNGS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 DUHNGZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DUNGS is a kind of stool or feed.

Synonyms muck

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DUNGS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).