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

ODEUM

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of odeon.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Partly from Middle French odéum and partly from Latin ōdēum.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ODEUM in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How ODEUM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ODEUM 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,186 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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 ODEUM 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.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ODEUM 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,186 Rank among openers
Opening with ODEUM left 1 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,186 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
14%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

ODEUM can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

422 answers
420 answers
275 answers
161 answers
125 answers
120 answers
84 answers
74 answers
67 answers
59 answers
58 answers
51 answers
40 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1D2E1U1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ODEUM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ODEUM:

18% chance
Suggested:
REATE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
REATE 5.60 bits
17.6% →
SLANT 6.03 bits
11.5% →
SLANT 5.15 bits
6.8% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
5.2% →
WORSE 4.45 bits
5.0% →
SLART 5.22 bits
3.5% →
DEARE 4.78 bits
3.1% →
DRAIN 5.00 bits
2.8% →
STAIR 4.57 bits
2.5% →
LAIRY 4.60 bits

Research on ODEUM

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

Optimal play

Opening with ODEUM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,127 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 ODEUM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ODEUM 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).