5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

OAKEN

OAKEN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊk.ən/

Adjective

Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.

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

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 OAKEN performs as a guess

OAKEN 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 89.6% of games, misses completely in 10.4%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,176 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

O___N O in the 1st position and N in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SPILT TERSE ROOST SLART SLEER SATYR
Words starting with O Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OAKEN 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,176 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OAKEN ranks #8,176 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
AENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
29%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A M E O
O A K E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OAKEN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

245
232
220
182
168
138
110
86
76
72
66
59
47
44
41
40
39
32
26
25
23
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19
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OAKEN:

10% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
10% chance
Suggested:
TERSE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.4% →
SPILT 5.60 bits
9.8% →
TERSE 5.41 bits
9.3% →
ROOST 5.23 bits
7.7% →
SLART 5.26 bits
7.1% →
SLART 5.40 bits
5.9% →
SLEER 4.60 bits
4.7% →
SATYR 4.02 bits
3.6% →
PROSE 4.49 bits
3.2% →
GLINT 4.55 bits
3.1% →
CORAL 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1A1K5E1N1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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