5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

OBESE

OBESE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /oʊˈbis//əʊˈbiːs//əˈbiːs/

Adjective

Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Noun

A person who is obese.

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

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 OBESE performs as a guess

OBESE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,106 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__S_ O in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _B__E B in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL TONAL LATER STALK RAILE SPORT
Words starting with O Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.39 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OBESE 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,106 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OBESE ranks #11,106 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
740
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
O B E S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OBESE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

477
300
251
184
145
76
73
68
60
57
55
50
42
39
38
36
35
29
28
25
24
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12
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OBESE:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
13% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
11% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
TRAIL 5.88 bits
12.7% →
TONAL 5.01 bits
10.6% →
LATER 5.36 bits
7.8% →
STALK 5.01 bits
6.1% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
3.2% →
SPORT 4.08 bits
3.1% →
MOVER 3.81 bits
2.9% →
RAINY 4.85 bits
2.5% →
SHART 4.45 bits
2.4% →
SLART 3.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1B3E1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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