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LODGE

Yes, LODGE was the Wordle answer on February 27, 2025 (Wordle #1349).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /lɒd͡ʒ//lɑd͡ʒ/

Noun

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

Noun

Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

Verb

To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

“The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.”

Verb

To firmly fix in a specified position.

“I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.”

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: February 27, 2025 (#1349).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 27, 2025 (#1349).

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

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How LODGE performs as a guess

LODGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,980 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

L___E L in the 1st position and E in the 5th position L__G_ L in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LODGE 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.

4.88 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LODGE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,980 Rank among openers
Opening with LODGE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,980 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
10
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:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
34%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
L O D G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches LODGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

LODGE can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

402 answers
265 answers
187 answers
169 answers
152 answers
101 answers
99 answers
66 answers
63 answers
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16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1D2G2E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAINT RESET STAIR ARSON SHART SATER

Strategy after playing LODGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LODGE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
RESET
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
SAINT 6.14 bits
11.2% →
RESET 5.53 bits
7.9% →
SAINT 5.11 bits
7.1% →
STAIR 5.14 bits
6.4% →
ARSON 5.24 bits
4.3% →
SHART 4.62 bits
4.2% →
SATER 4.43 bits
2.8% →
DETER 4.50 bits
2.7% →
SAINT 5.12 bits
2.5% →
DRAIN 4.91 bits

Research on LODGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LODGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,534 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 LODGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it LAHJ.

Rhymes with DODGE PODGE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LODGE is a kind of association or house.

Synonyms ORDER club society charge STICK file

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LODGE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

Where did you lodge them?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I would lodge a complaint.
© tatoeba.org contributor J_S (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).