Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

ODAHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of odah

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 ODAHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ODAHS 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,448 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ODAHS 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ODAHS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#7,448 Rank among openers
Opening with ODAHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,448 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
18%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

ODAHS can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

398 answers
280 answers
231 answers
183 answers
122 answers
120 answers
97 answers
96 answers
95 answers
83 answers
68 answers
67 answers
58 answers
52 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
28 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1D2A1H4S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ODAHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ODAHS:

17% chance
Suggested:
LINER
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8%
LINER 5.93 bits
11.8%
TALER 5.45 bits
9.7%
TRONE 5.09 bits
7.7%
TRINE 5.42 bits
5.1%
DINER 5.38 bits
5.1%
TRICE 4.93 bits
4.1%
CRINE 5.23 bits
4.0%
PORTE 4.63 bits
4.0%
CAROL 4.65 bits
3.5%
SALET 4.81 bits

Research on ODAHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ODAHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,299 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ODAHS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it OHDUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.