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

DOGIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊɡi//ˈdəʊɡi/

Noun

A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

Alternative forms: dogey, dogy

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

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use DOGIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

Open Solver with DOGIE Open Word Finder

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.

DOGIE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How DOGIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOGIE 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 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,178 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

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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__I_ D in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position DO_IE D in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, I in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DOGIE.

First-turn measures

All four describe DOGIE 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOGIE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,178 Rank among openers
Opening with DOGIE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,178 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
40%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

DOGIE can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

367 answers
319 answers
178 answers
166 answers
157 answers
117 answers
69 answers
65 answers
55 answers
53 answers
47 answers
44 answers
39 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1G2I1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLART SLATY ARSON SLANT RIPEN ALBUM

Strategy after playing DOGIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOGIE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
SLART 5.98 bits
13.4% →
SLART 5.69 bits
7.5% →
SLATY 5.00 bits
7.0% →
ARSON 5.07 bits
6.6% →
SLART 5.25 bits
4.9% →
SLART 4.64 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.15 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
2.3% →
RIPEN 4.44 bits
2.2% →
SLART 4.10 bits

Research on DOGIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOGIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,972 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 DOGIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Familiarity and learning

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