5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OBOES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of oboe

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 OBOES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OBOES 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 231 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,596 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _B__S B in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE SLART RAINY RAILE FRONT
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.12 Entropy (bits)
231 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OBOES 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,596 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OBOES ranks #12,596 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
331
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
27%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

477
383
230
192
176
147
70
68
63
49
45
39
36
35
32
30
24
24
24
17
16
14
14
14
12
10
10
9
8
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OBOES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
REATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
TRAIL 5.88 bits
16.2% →
REATE 5.52 bits
9.8% →
SLART 5.22 bits
8.1% →
RAINY 4.88 bits
7.5% →
RAILE 4.32 bits
6.2% →
SLART 4.95 bits
3.0% →
FRONT 4.19 bits
2.9% →
RAINY 4.85 bits
2.7% →
GRATE 4.58 bits
2.1% →
STEER 3.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1B3O1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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