5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OBANG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An old Japanese gold coin.

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 OBANG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OBANG 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,909 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___G O in the 1st position and G in the 5th position O__N_ O in the 1st position and N in the 4th position

Try next

SLIER TORSE TALER SHIRE SILER BLUER
Words starting with O Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% 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 opener: v5 benchmark

How OBANG 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,909 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OBANG ranks #6,909 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
22%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
286
284
190
122
77
73
69
67
62
47
45
41
37
36
29
24
22
21
21
20
19
18
18
17
14
13
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OBANG:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
SLIER 6.12 bits
12.1% →
TORSE 5.39 bits
12.0% →
TALER 5.57 bits
8.1% →
SHIRE 5.04 bits
5.2% →
SILER 5.00 bits
3.3% →
BLUER 5.08 bits
3.1% →
CAROL 4.68 bits
2.9% →
SIDLE 4.86 bits
2.8% →
SIREN 4.43 bits
2.6% →
LANCE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1B3A1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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