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DOLLY

Yes, DOLLY was the Wordle answer on June 24, 2024 (Wordle #1101).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑli//ˈdɒli/

Noun

A doll.

Noun

A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.

Verb

To hit a dolly.

Verb

To move (an object) using a dolly.

Alternative forms: dollie, dally

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

Etymology

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DAHLEE.

Rhymes with HOLLY MOLLY JOLLY POLLY FOLLY

Related meanings

Synonyms doll

In a sentence

Ziri named his ewe Dolly.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use DOLLY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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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: June 24, 2024 (#1101).

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DOLLY in Connections

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

How DOLLY performs as a guess

DOLLY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 345 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,457 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___Y D in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position D__L_ D in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position DO_LY D in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, L in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DOLLY 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
345 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOLLY 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#11,457 Rank among openers
Opening with DOLLY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,457 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
321
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
34%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
D O L L Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DOLLY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DOLLY can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

790 answers
247 answers
243 answers
170 answers
139 answers
112 answers
57 answers
51 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
20 answers
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12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1L1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE TRONE CRUET ARISE SCRAE

Strategy after playing DOLLY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOLLY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
TARSE 6.42 bits
10.4% →
RAISE 5.32 bits
10.2% →
TRONE 5.34 bits
7.1% →
TARSE 4.87 bits
5.8% →
CRUET 4.92 bits
4.7% →
ARISE 5.39 bits
2.4% →
SCRAE 3.93 bits
2.1% →
STAGE 4.65 bits
1.8% →
URINE 4.72 bits
1.6% →
RAISE 4.45 bits

Research on DOLLY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOLLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,478 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 DOLLY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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
DOLLY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).