5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OASTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of oast

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 OASTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OASTS 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,889 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__T_ O in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LINER DRONE LEARN CLINE THEIR SLIER
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OASTS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,889 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OASTS ranks #10,889 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
274
253
146
144
136
92
75
71
69
64
63
53
42
41
36
28
25
24
20
19
18
17
15
11
11
8
8
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OASTS:

19% chance
Suggested:
LINER
12% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
LEARN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
LINER 5.95 bits
11.6% →
DRONE 5.20 bits
10.7% →
LEARN 5.42 bits
6.2% →
CLINE 4.60 bits
6.1% →
THEIR 5.29 bits
5.8% →
SLIER 5.14 bits
3.9% →
CHARE 4.63 bits
3.2% →
ALERT 4.86 bits
3.0% →
MOLAR 4.30 bits
2.9% →
PRONE 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1A1S1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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