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

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 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OGLES.

First-turn measures

All four describe OGLES 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,106 Rank among openers
Opening with OGLES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It 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 (3.46 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

OGLES can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

300 answers
249 answers
215 answers
165 answers
136 answers
126 answers
113 answers
100 answers
77 answers
64 answers
61 answers
56 answers
56 answers
50 answers
47 answers
44 answers
41 answers
35 answers
35 answers
28 answers
25 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

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.

Try next

TRAIN REATE MORON SHART PLAIT AIDER

Strategy after playing OGLES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OGLES:

13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
REATE
9% chance
Suggested:
MORON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
TRAIN 5.99 bits
10.5% →
REATE 5.59 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 4.09 bits

Research on OGLES

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

Optimal play

Opening with OGLES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,096 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,790 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 OHGUHLZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OGLES is a kind of look.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OGLES 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).