OASIS
Yes, OASIS was the Wordle answer on March 20, 2026 (Wordle #1735).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əʊˈeɪsɪs//əʊˈeɪsəs//oʊˈeɪsɪs/
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A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
- Noun
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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.
Etymology
From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic Egyptian wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25 Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it OHAYSIHS.
Related meanings
Synonyms HAVEN
In a sentence
Earth is our oasis in space.
There is an oasis in the desert.
Use OASIS in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 20, 2026 (#1735).
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How OASIS performs as a guess
OASIS is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 185 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for OASIS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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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:
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.
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).
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).