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DOJOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of dojo

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How DOJOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOJOS 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 59.6% of games, misses completely in 40.4%, and leaves about 500 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,039 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S D in the 1st position and S in the 5th position D__O_ D in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DOJOS 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.

3.20 Entropy (bits)
500 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOJOS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,039 Rank among openers
Opening with DOJOS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,039 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
609
4 guesses
1,305
5 guesses
386
6 guesses
26
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
22%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

DOJOS can come back 50 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

958 answers
419 answers
158 answers
158 answers
150 answers
74 answers
65 answers
65 answers
38 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1J8O1S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

RAILE STALE CRANE CARTE IRATE TALER

Strategy after playing DOJOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOJOS:

40% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
18% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.4% →
RAILE 6.17 bits
17.6% →
STALE 5.61 bits
6.7% →
CRANE 5.35 bits
6.7% →
RAILE 5.59 bits
6.3% →
CARTE 4.81 bits
3.1% →
IRATE 5.08 bits
2.7% →
TALER 4.64 bits
2.7% →
REACT 4.18 bits
1.6% →
TRIPE 4.04 bits
1.2% →
LEARY 3.81 bits

Research on DOJOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOJOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,068 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 DOJOS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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 DOHJOHZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DOJOS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).