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OBOLI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with OBOLI Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of obolus

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 OBOLI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OBOLI 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 71.1% of games, misses completely in 28.9%, and leaves about 312 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,096 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___I O in the 1st position and I in the 5th position O__L_ O in the 1st position and L in the 4th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OBOLI.

First-turn measures

All four describe OBOLI used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.82 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OBOLI 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,096 Rank among openers
Opening with OBOLI left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,096 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
713
4 guesses
1,278
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
20%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

OBOLI can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

685 answers
367 answers
212 answers
203 answers
115 answers
100 answers
78 answers
77 answers
56 answers
54 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
29 answers
21 answers
16 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1B3O1L1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TARSE TRINE CARSE CARET CRANE TIARE

Strategy after playing OBOLI

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to OBOLI.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OBOLI:

29% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.9% →
TARSE 6.37 bits
15.5% →
TRINE 5.55 bits
8.9% →
CARSE 5.29 bits
8.6% →
CARET 5.27 bits
4.8% →
CRANE 4.96 bits
4.2% →
TIARE 4.54 bits
3.3% →
SAUTE 4.89 bits
3.2% →
REACT 5.18 bits
2.4% →
POINT 4.49 bits
2.3% →
TALER 4.30 bits

Research on OBOLI

Game-tree analysis and word research for OBOLI, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with OBOLI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,556 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,737 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it OHBOHLEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OBOLI is a kind of weight.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OBOLI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).