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OLOGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒɪ//ˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

Noun

Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”.

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 OLOGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OLOGY 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 66.2% of games, misses completely in 33.8%, and leaves about 352 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

O___Y O in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position _L__Y L in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OLOGY 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.

3.84 Entropy (bits)
352 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OLOGY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,997 Rank among openers
Opening with OLOGY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
314
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
36%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

OLOGY can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

802 answers
244 answers
208 answers
189 answers
127 answers
109 answers
102 answers
59 answers
56 answers
40 answers
36 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1L1O1G2Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAISE SATER CARET TARSE SPACE CRATE

Strategy after playing OLOGY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OLOGY:

34% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SATER
9% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.8% →
RAISE 6.20 bits
10.3% →
SATER 5.39 bits
8.8% →
CARET 5.34 bits
8.0% →
TARSE 4.86 bits
5.3% →
SPACE 5.08 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 4.99 bits
4.3% →
TIARE 5.42 bits
2.5% →
SALLE 4.33 bits
2.4% →
TALER 4.23 bits
1.7% →
SARED 4.02 bits

Research on OLOGY

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

Optimal play

Opening with OLOGY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,243 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best and is rank #5,854 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AHLUHJEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OLOGY is a kind of study.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OLOGY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).