5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

OGLES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ogle.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of ogle.

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 OGLES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OGLES 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,106 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

O___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _G__S G in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN CRATE MORON SHART PLAIT AIDER
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OGLES 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,106 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OGLES ranks #5,106 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
21%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

298
248
214
164
135
124
113
100
76
63
61
56
55
49
45
43
41
35
35
28
25
20
20
20
19
18
15
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OGLES:

13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
MORON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
TRAIN 5.97 bits
10.5% →
CRATE 5.69 bits
9.1% →
MORON 5.04 bits
7.0% →
SHART 5.31 bits
5.7% →
PLAIT 4.91 bits
5.3% →
AIDER 4.17 bits
4.8% →
PRATE 4.98 bits
4.2% →
DEALT 4.70 bits
3.2% →
ROOST 4.35 bits
2.7% →
LOCAL 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1G2L1E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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