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

ODISM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The supposed science of the force or natural power called od.

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 ODISM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ODISM 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,424 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 ODISM 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.

4.36 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ODISM 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,424 Rank among openers
Opening with ODISM left 2 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,424 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
15
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
21%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

ODISM can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

530 answers
284 answers
198 answers
178 answers
122 answers
116 answers
93 answers
88 answers
82 answers
70 answers
55 answers
49 answers
45 answers
45 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1D2I1S1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ODISM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ODISM:

22% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3%
CARLE 6.28 bits
12.0%
CARLE 5.31 bits
8.3%
PLATE 5.56 bits
7.5%
LEANT 5.19 bits
5.1%
CRANE 5.01 bits
4.9%
DEARE 5.41 bits
3.9%
EARLY 5.16 bits
3.7%
THALE 4.95 bits
3.5%
PARTE 4.28 bits
2.9%
DRONE 4.52 bits

Research on ODISM

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

Optimal play

Opening with ODISM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,817 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 ODISM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 OHDUHMZ. 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.