DOGMA
Yes, DOGMA was the Wordle answer on November 30, 2024 (Wordle #1260).
As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡ.mə//ˈdɔɡ.mə//ˈdɑɡ.mə/
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An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
- Noun
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A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
“In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: November 30, 2024 (#1260).
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See what the public sample says →How DOGMA performs as a guess
DOGMA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.5% of games, misses completely in 23.5%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,039 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe DOGMA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DOGMA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches DOGMA in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DOGMA can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DOGMA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing DOGMA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DOGMA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DOGMA:
Research on DOGMA
Game-tree analysis and word research for DOGMA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DOGMA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 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 DOGMA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DAHGMUH.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, DOGMA is a kind of gospel or philosophy.
Synonyms TENET
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- DOGMA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 13, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 18 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.4 of 5).
In a sentence
This dogma has been challenged.
This dogma is rather a paradox.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).