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DODGE

Yes, DODGE was the Wordle answer on February 18, 2022 (Wordle #244).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /dɒd͡ʒ//dɑd͡ʒ/

Verb

To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

“He dodged traffic crossing the street.”

Verb

To avoid; to sidestep.

“The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.”

Noun

An act of dodging.

Noun

A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 18, 2022 (#244).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DODGE performs as a guess

DODGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 275 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,617 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___E D in the 1st position and E in the 5th position D__G_ D in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART ALTER ARSON SHART SLANT SLEER
Words starting with D Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
275 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DODGE 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,617 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DODGE ranks #11,617 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
719
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
332
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
36%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
A B A C K
D O D G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DODGE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

600
385
230
200
139
85
57
54
48
44
38
37
35
32
28
28
24
23
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DODGE:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLART
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
SLART 5.98 bits
16.3% →
ALTER 5.34 bits
9.8% →
SLART 5.28 bits
8.5% →
ARSON 5.17 bits
5.9% →
SHART 4.54 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 5.08 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.04 bits
2.3% →
SLEER 4.27 bits
2.0% →
LAIRY 4.37 bits
1.9% →
MOWER 3.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1D2G2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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