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OASIS

Yes, OASIS was the Wordle answer on March 20, 2026 (Wordle #1735).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əʊˈeɪsɪs//əʊˈeɪsəs//oʊˈeɪsɪs/

Noun

A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.

Noun

A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

“The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.”

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: March 20, 2026 (#1735).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 20, 2026 (#1735).

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

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How OASIS performs as a guess

OASIS 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,141 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__I_ O in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OASIS 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.

4.32 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OASIS 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.76 Spread of game lengths
#13,141 Rank among openers
Opening with OASIS left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.76 means those games clustered within about 0.76 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,141 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
698
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
359
6 guesses
39
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
24%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
O A S I S

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OASIS in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

OASIS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

316 answers
306 answers
270 answers
268 answers
182 answers
128 answers
116 answers
98 answers
87 answers
82 answers
59 answers
43 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1A1S1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

LEERY TRONE TRINE LEARN LATER THALE

Strategy after playing OASIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OASIS:

13% chance
Suggested:
LEERY
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
LEERY 5.41 bits
12.9% →
TRONE 5.06 bits
11.4% →
TRINE 5.34 bits
11.3% →
LEARN 5.31 bits
7.7% →
LATER 4.52 bits
5.4% →
THALE 4.67 bits
4.9% →
SLEET 4.89 bits
4.1% →
PORTE 4.39 bits
3.7% →
MOLAR 4.25 bits
3.5% →
TRINE 4.38 bits

Research on OASIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with OASIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,659 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 OASIS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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 second syllable Say it OHAYSIHS.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OASIS is a kind of tract or shelter.

Synonyms HAVEN

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OASIS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Earth is our oasis in space.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There is an oasis in the desert.
© tatoeba.org contributor BobbyLee (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).