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

OKOLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

anus; butt

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 OKOLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OKOLE 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,072 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe OKOLE 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OKOLE 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,072 Rank among openers
Opening with OKOLE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,072 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
699
4 guesses
1,287
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

OKOLE can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
352 answers
231 answers
207 answers
151 answers
125 answers
75 answers
71 answers
70 answers
56 answers
50 answers
44 answers
44 answers
35 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
19 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1K5O1L1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing OKOLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OKOLE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
10% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2%
SAINT 6.13 bits
14.8%
STAIR 5.28 bits
9.7%
STAIR 5.06 bits
8.7%
RAINY 4.95 bits
6.4%
SLAIN 5.08 bits
5.3%
RENAL 4.62 bits
3.2%
SNARY 4.82 bits
3.0%
SAUNT 4.56 bits
2.9%
SAURY 4.21 bits
2.4%
MOVER 3.84 bits

Research on OKOLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OKOLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,435 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,720 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 second syllable Say it OHKOHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.