5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OLDLY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adverb

In an old manner.

“windows fashioned oldly”

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 OLDLY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OLDLY 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 66.9% of games, misses completely in 33.1%, and leaves about 353 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,965 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___Y O in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position O__L_ O in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _L__Y L in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SAINT RENAL SPACE IRATE SAGER
Words starting with O Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.82 Entropy (bits)
353 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OLDLY 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
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,965 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OLDLY ranks #11,965 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
724
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
22
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
1 vowels
Common:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
32%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

780
350
164
155
126
121
62
57
51
51
38
36
33
31
26
23
20
20
16
15
14
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10
10
9
8
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6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OLDLY:

33% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.1% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
14.8% →
TARSE 5.43 bits
7.0% →
SAINT 4.80 bits
6.6% →
RENAL 5.34 bits
5.3% →
SPACE 5.06 bits
5.1% →
IRATE 5.36 bits
2.6% →
SAGER 4.37 bits
2.4% →
BRINE 4.52 bits
2.2% →
PAISE 4.44 bits
2.2% →
SNORE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1L1D2L1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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