5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OIDIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of oidium

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 OIDIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OIDIA 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___A O in the 1st position and A in the 5th position O__I_ O in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SLEER TORSE STURE SENTE CAROL
Words starting with O Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.99 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OIDIA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#12,910 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OIDIA ranks #12,910 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
705
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
377
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
21%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
394
352
179
118
106
66
60
55
41
41
41
35
33
23
23
18
17
17
17
16
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12
12
11
11
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10
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OIDIA:

22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
15% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TARSE 5.58 bits
16.7% →
SLEER 5.79 bits
14.9% →
TORSE 5.38 bits
7.6% →
STURE 4.92 bits
5.0% →
SENTE 4.41 bits
4.5% →
CAROL 4.70 bits
2.8% →
BRANE 4.51 bits
2.5% →
DONOR 4.22 bits
2.3% →
SETER 4.89 bits
1.7% →
TRUCE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1I1D2I1A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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