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

DYNEL

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

A type of synthetic fiber used in fibre-reinforced plastic composite materials, especially for marine applications.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use DYNEL in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How DYNEL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DYNEL 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,379 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe DYNEL 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DYNEL 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,379 Rank among openers
Opening with DYNEL left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,379 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
28%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

DYNEL can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

394 answers
318 answers
146 answers
143 answers
134 answers
130 answers
118 answers
69 answers
67 answers
61 answers
50 answers
46 answers
40 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2Y4N1E1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing DYNEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DYNEL:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
ROAST 6.17 bits
13.3% →
ROAST 5.76 bits
6.1% →
TRAIN 5.34 bits
6.0% →
ROAST 4.95 bits
5.6% →
COAST 5.33 bits
5.5% →
ROAST 4.33 bits
4.9% →
BLASE 4.68 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.66 bits
2.8% →
ARISE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
SOLAR 3.88 bits

Research on DYNEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with DYNEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,169 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 DYNEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).