5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

OATER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.tɚ/

Noun

A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.

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 OATER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OATER 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 91.6% of games, misses completely in 8.4%, and leaves about 73 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,009 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___R O in the 1st position and R in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLIMY SEINE COLON CLASP SLADE SONLY
Words starting with O Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.63 Entropy (bits)
73 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OATER 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,009 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OATER ranks #1,009 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
98
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
30%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

199
144
137
110
101
77
75
71
68
67
64
64
63
62
61
55
48
47
41
38
38
33
31
30
30
29
27
26
24
24

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OATER:

8% chance
Suggested:
SLIMY
6% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
6% chance
Suggested:
COLON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

8.4% →
SLIMY 5.49 bits
6.1% →
SEINE 5.43 bits
5.8% →
COLON 4.96 bits
4.7% →
CLASP 5.04 bits
4.3% →
SLADE 4.59 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 4.15 bits
3.2% →
SEINE 4.49 bits
3.0% →
SHUNT 4.73 bits
2.9% →
CROWD 4.05 bits
2.8% →
CRISP 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1A1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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