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

DYNES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dyne

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

How it sounds

One syllable Say it DYNZ.

Rhymes with LINES SIGNS MINES WINES FINES

Use DYNES 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 DYNES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DYNES 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 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,111 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 DYNES 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DYNES 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,111 Rank among openers
Opening with DYNES left 1 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 3.70 average. It ranks #7,111 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

DYNES can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
296 answers
190 answers
150 answers
148 answers
140 answers
135 answers
65 answers
63 answers
63 answers
56 answers
55 answers
45 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2Y4N1E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing DYNES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DYNES:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
CAROL 6.18 bits
12.4% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
8.0% →
SLART 5.31 bits
6.3% →
SLART 4.98 bits
6.2% →
OATER 4.01 bits
5.9% →
LAIRY 4.37 bits
5.7% →
TRAIN 5.38 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.37 bits
2.6% →
ALINE 4.53 bits
2.6% →
ALOUD 4.83 bits

Research on DYNES

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

Optimal play

Opening with DYNES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,288 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 DYNES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70; proven optimal play reaches 3.69. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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
DYNES 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).