5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OKING

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

present participle and gerund of OK

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 OKING performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OKING 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,199 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___G O in the 1st position and G in the 5th position O__N_ O in the 1st position and N in the 4th position

Try next

REAST TALER SALET CRATE SANER ALURE
Words starting with O Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OKING 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#9,199 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OKING ranks #9,199 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
795
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
13
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:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
18%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

704
344
195
130
106
94
78
76
75
49
43
39
32
31
29
21
21
20
20
20
19
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12
12
11
11
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9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OKING:

30% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
REAST 6.37 bits
14.6% →
TALER 5.29 bits
8.3% →
SALET 5.19 bits
5.5% →
CRATE 5.11 bits
4.5% →
SANER 5.13 bits
4.0% →
ALURE 5.18 bits
3.3% →
SAWER 4.53 bits
3.2% →
CARSE 5.03 bits
3.2% →
CANER 4.51 bits
2.1% →
ALURE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1K5I1N1G2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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