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

DYERS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dyer

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 DYERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DYERS 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 85.4% of games, misses completely in 14.6%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,150 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__R_ D in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _Y__S Y in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DYERS 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DYERS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,150 Rank among openers
Opening with DYERS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,150 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
874
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
23
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:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
20%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

DYERS can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

346 answers
276 answers
212 answers
183 answers
179 answers
129 answers
115 answers
60 answers
52 answers
52 answers
47 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2Y4E1R1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TONAL ANILE PATEE TRIAL SLANT INLAY

Strategy after playing DYERS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DYERS:

15% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
12% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
9% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.6% →
TONAL 6.01 bits
11.6% →
ANILE 5.35 bits
8.9% →
PATEE 4.59 bits
7.7% →
TRIAL 4.95 bits
7.5% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
5.4% →
INLAY 4.06 bits
4.8% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
2.5% →
SAIST 4.16 bits
2.2% →
ALOUD 4.64 bits
2.2% →
ALINE 4.59 bits

Research on DYERS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DYERS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,852 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 DYERS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DYURZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DYERS is a kind of worker.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DYERS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).