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

DOMIC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊmɪk//ˈdɒmɪk/

Adjective

Relating to or shaped like a dome; domical or domeshaped.

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 DOMIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOMIC 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,759 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 DOMIC 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOMIC 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,759 Rank among openers
Opening with DOMIC left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,759 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
24%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

DOMIC can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

635 answers
269 answers
201 answers
181 answers
132 answers
93 answers
85 answers
61 answers
57 answers
54 answers
42 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1M3I1C3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing DOMIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOMIC:

27% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7%
TARSE 6.42 bits
11.3%
TRINE 5.47 bits
8.5%
TARSE 5.32 bits
7.6%
CRATE 5.71 bits
5.6%
SLYER 4.72 bits
3.9%
SEARE 5.17 bits
3.6%
PARLE 5.34 bits
2.6%
SLART 5.22 bits
2.4%
TRICE 4.24 bits
2.3%
SAKER 4.51 bits

Research on DOMIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOMIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,026 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 DOMIC can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DAHMIHK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.