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

DOOLY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.

Noun

Synonym of stretcher, a basic litter used for transport of the ill and injured.

Alternative forms: dhooley, dhooly, dhouly, dhuli

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

Etymology

From Hindi डोली (ḍolī), from डोला (ḍolā, “litter”) + -ई (-ī, “forming diminutives”), from Sanskrit दोल (dōlā, “dangling cradle; litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”). Compare andor from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola) via Portuguese.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use DOOLY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with DOOLY 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.

How DOOLY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DOOLY 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 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 338 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,652 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___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 DOOLY.

First-turn measures

All four describe DOOLY 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.

4.03 Entropy (bits)
338 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DOOLY 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#10,652 Rank among openers
Opening with DOOLY 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 3.78 average. It ranks #10,652 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
789
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
40%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

DOOLY can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

790 answers
292 answers
170 answers
116 answers
115 answers
112 answers
103 answers
75 answers
42 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1O1L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TARSE RAISE MANOR CRUET ARISE CRATE

Strategy after playing DOOLY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOOLY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
TARSE 6.42 bits
12.2% →
RAISE 5.43 bits
7.1% →
TARSE 4.87 bits
4.9% →
MANOR 5.28 bits
4.8% →
CRUET 4.99 bits
4.7% →
ARISE 5.39 bits
4.3% →
CRATE 4.92 bits
3.1% →
SAUTE 4.76 bits
1.8% →
URINE 4.72 bits
1.6% →
SCRAE 3.72 bits

Research on DOOLY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DOOLY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,927 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 DOOLY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
DOOLY 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).