5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

DYKED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Containing a dyke (ditch).

Verb

simple past and past participle of dyke

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 DYKED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DYKED 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 69.3% of games, misses completely in 30.7%, and leaves about 394 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,309 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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___D D in the 1st position and D in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _Y__D Y in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SOLAR COAST ALURE GEARE
Words starting with D Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
394 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DYKED 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#14,309 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DYKED ranks #14,309 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
566
4 guesses
1,328
5 guesses
414
6 guesses
19
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
23%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

49 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

724
523
229
220
106
73
56
49
42
31
29
28
26
23
22
20
19
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9
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3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DYKED:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
22% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.7% →
ROAST 6.03 bits
22.2% →
SLART 5.71 bits
9.7% →
SOLAR 4.61 bits
9.3% →
SOLAR 4.92 bits
4.5% →
COAST 4.76 bits
3.1% →
ALURE 4.43 bits
2.4% →
GEARE 4.13 bits
2.1% →
PEART 4.38 bits
1.8% →
SNARE 4.13 bits
1.3% →
IRATE 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2Y4K5E1D2
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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