5-Letter Word

DICTY

A 5 letter word: dicty

D1
I2
C3
T4
Y5
Letter positions
Word
dicty
Position 1
d
Position 2
i
Position 3
c
Position 4
t
Position 5
y
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
2
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
11

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 22,02216.2%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
D16505.2%
I21,33410.7%
C33733.0%
T48787.0%
Y51,25410.0%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
D1218%
I219%
C3327%
T419%
Y5436%
Total11Higher than 81% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is DICTY a good Wordle opening word?
DICTY has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does DICTY mean?
DICTY: A 5 letter word: dicty.
What is the Scrabble score for DICTY?
11 points. Tile breakdown: D(2) + I(1) + C(3) + T(1) + Y(4). The highest-value tile is Y (4 points), contributing 36% of the total. This score is higher than 81% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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