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

DOGEY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of dogie.

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

Use DOGEY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% 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 DOGEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOGEY 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,998 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 DOGEY 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOGEY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,998 Rank among openers
Opening with DOGEY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #5,998 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
9

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
41%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

DOGEY can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

436 answers
382 answers
184 answers
181 answers
158 answers
97 answers
80 answers
53 answers
52 answers
49 answers
46 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1G2E1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing DOGEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOGEY:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
SLART 6.11 bits
16.0% →
SLART 5.92 bits
7.7% →
ARSON 5.12 bits
7.6% →
STAIR 4.74 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 4.89 bits
4.1% →
SHART 4.64 bits
3.4% →
SLART 4.25 bits
2.2% →
LARGE 4.29 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.92 bits
2.1% →
ALINE 4.45 bits

Research on DOGEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOGEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,893 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 DOGEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).