5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

OILED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Covered in, or supplied with, oil.

“an oiled machine”

Adjective

Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.

“I got well oiled last night.”

Verb

simple past and past participle of oil

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 OILED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OILED 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 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 122 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,601 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D O in the 1st position and D in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SHART STARE ROOST SAINT SAUNT TASER
Words starting with O Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.11 Entropy (bits)
122 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OILED 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,601 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OILED ranks #2,601 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
29%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

274
254
229
132
114
112
105
81
79
67
65
63
47
41
38
38
36
27
24
23
23
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18
18
17
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15
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OILED:

12% chance
Suggested:
SHART
11% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROOST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.6% →
SHART 5.94 bits
10.8% →
STARE 5.67 bits
9.7% →
ROOST 5.34 bits
5.6% →
SAINT 5.37 bits
4.8% →
SAUNT 4.86 bits
4.7% →
TASER 4.50 bits
4.5% →
PLATE 4.67 bits
3.4% →
STORE 4.50 bits
3.4% →
TRINE 4.69 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1I1L1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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