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DOZEN

Yes, DOZEN was the Wordle answer on October 26, 2021 (Wordle #129).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌzən//ˈdɐzən/

Noun

A set of twelve.

“Can I have a dozen eggs, please?”

Noun

A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

“There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.”

Alternative forms: doz

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 26, 2021 (#129).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DOZEN performs as a guess

DOZEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,744 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

D___N D in the 1st position and N in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SAINT STAIR SALTY SEINE LEARE
Words starting with D Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How DOZEN 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,744 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, DOZEN ranks #8,744 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
790
4 guesses
1,273
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
31%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
V I N Y L
W O K E N
D O Z E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DOZEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

498
392
168
163
155
120
80
64
62
61
37
36
34
29
28
27
27
26
25
24
24
24
20
20
16
14
12
12
11
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DOZEN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1% →
SLART 6.06 bits
16.6% →
SLART 5.96 bits
7.1% →
SLART 5.22 bits
6.9% →
SAINT 5.26 bits
6.6% →
STAIR 4.55 bits
5.1% →
SALTY 4.50 bits
3.4% →
SEINE 4.61 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.27 bits
2.6% →
LEARE 4.62 bits
2.6% →
LURID 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

D2O1Z10E1N1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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