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

DORMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of dormie.

Noun

A dormitory.

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 DORMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts DORMY 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 73.7% of games, misses completely in 26.3%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,755 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__M_ D in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe DORMY 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DORMY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,755 Rank among openers
Opening with DORMY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,755 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
15
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
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
34%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

DORMY can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

624 answers
313 answers
165 answers
140 answers
96 answers
89 answers
86 answers
66 answers
66 answers
48 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1R1M3Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLANE TEASE SLANT SAINT TRONE ALINE

Strategy after playing DORMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DORMY:

26% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
13% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.3% →
SLANE 6.38 bits
13.2% →
TEASE 5.41 bits
7.0% →
SLANT 5.37 bits
5.9% →
SAINT 4.91 bits
4.0% →
TRONE 4.40 bits
3.7% →
ALINE 5.40 bits
3.6% →
TUILE 4.63 bits
2.8% →
SAICE 5.21 bits
2.8% →
SAUTE 5.11 bits
2.0% →
CRIED 4.39 bits

Research on DORMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with DORMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,288 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 DORMY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 DAWRMEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms up

Opposites down

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DORMY 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).