DYING
DYING is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
- Adjective
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Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
“The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!”
- Adjective
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Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
“In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.”
- Noun
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The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
- Verb
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present participle and gerund of die
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DYIHNG.
Related meanings
Synonyms DEATH anxious demise last EAGER
Opposites nascent
In a sentence
I'm dying to see you.
I'm dying to see it.
Use DYING in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →How DYING performs as a guess
DYING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 65.8% of games, misses completely in 34.2%, and leaves about 338 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,075 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe DYING 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DYING 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches DYING in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DYING can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DYING; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing DYING
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DYING.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DYING:
Research on DYING
Game-tree analysis and word research for DYING, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DYING, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,306 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 DYING can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- DYING sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 43 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).