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

OFURO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of furo (“Japanese bath”).

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

Use OFURO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% 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 OFURO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OFURO 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 348 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,695 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe OFURO 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.

3.73 Entropy (bits)
348 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OFURO 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,695 Rank among openers
Opening with OFURO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,695 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
714
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
328
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
17%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

OFURO can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

754 answers
359 answers
247 answers
157 answers
127 answers
77 answers
76 answers
74 answers
62 answers
42 answers
40 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1F4U1R1O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing OFURO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OFURO:

32% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
CADET
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
SLATE 6.30 bits
15.1% →
CADET 5.33 bits
10.4% →
SLANE 5.24 bits
6.6% →
SLICE 4.80 bits
5.3% →
CARNE 4.45 bits
3.2% →
THALE 4.83 bits
3.2% →
SLANT 4.56 bits
3.1% →
FILET 5.30 bits
2.6% →
SURER 4.53 bits
1.8% →
SLATY 3.75 bits

Research on OFURO

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

Optimal play

Opening with OFURO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,436 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,426 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).