5 Letter Words Starting with DE

There are 208 of them. The everyday ones include DEATH, DEPTH, DEBUT, DELAY and DEVIL.

208 in total, and 28 of them are on the Wordle answer list.

DEALS, DEALT and DELTA narrow this list fastest. DEALS leaves at most 85 words in the worst case.

49 of them, including DEALS, DEBTS, DEEDS, DENIS and DECKS.

Yes. DEATH, DEPTH and DEBUT all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.

Yes. DEREK and DENSE are two of them. Crossing off a letter after one grey square is the quickest way to miss an answer like these.

Yes. Remove the fat from. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.

DEATH. It is the most ordinary word here that the answer list carries, so it is the guess to make when you want to win the round rather than learn from it.

Yes. Every word on this list is a legal guess, including the ones that look wrong. DEYNT and DEXIE are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.

DEBAR, DEIGN and DEMUR. All three are on the answer list, and none is a word you would reach for early, so they are worth remembering once the obvious guesses run out.