DOVER
DOVER is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊ.və//ˈdoʊ.vɚ/
- Proper noun
-
A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141).
- Proper noun
-
A sea area between this port and France.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Old English Dofras, from Latin Dubris, from Brythonic Dubras (“the waters”), from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubrós (“dark”), from *dʰewb- (“deep”). Compare Tauber.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DOHVUR.
Rhymes with ROVER
In a sentence
We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais.
The White Cliffs of Dover retreat by about one centimeter every year.
Use DOVER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo 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.
Wordle Observatory · optional
Played this Wordle?
Add your result to the public totals · about 20 seconds
Wordle Observatory · optional
Played this Wordle?
Add your result to the public totals · about 20 seconds
Add your result and a quick difficulty rating to help explain how this puzzle played.
See the public dataThank you. Your result now helps describe this puzzle.
See what the public sample says →DOVER in Connections
1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
-
· Puzzle #861
Reveal this appearance's category
DOVER appeared in CHOCOLATE BARS PLUS A LETTER (purple group).
How DOVER performs as a guess
Wordle accepts DOVER 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,200 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.
Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe DOVER 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How DOVER 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
DOVER can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for DOVER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing DOVER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DOVER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DOVER:
Research on DOVER
Game-tree analysis and word research for DOVER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DOVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,496 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 DOVER 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- DOVER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).