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OLIVE

Yes, OLIVE was the Wordle answer on April 23, 2022 (Wordle #308).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɒ.lɪv//ˈɑ.lɪv/

Noun

A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.

Noun

The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).

Adjective

Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), itself from either Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva), Pre-Classical Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), or the same source as those two. In any case, ultimately from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source, possibly Proto-Berber *wlw (“wild olive”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AHLUHV.

In a sentence

Would you like an olive?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you want an olive?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use OLIVE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 23, 2022 (#308).

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OLIVE in Connections

6 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How OLIVE performs as a guess

OLIVE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,323 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

O___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__V_ O in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OLIVE.

First-turn measures

All four describe OLIVE 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.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OLIVE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,323 Rank among openers
Opening with OLIVE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,323 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
796
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EILO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
34%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
O L I V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OLIVE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

OLIVE can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
276 answers
273 answers
144 answers
139 answers
91 answers
89 answers
86 answers
65 answers
64 answers
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22 answers
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13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1L1I1V4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SMART RESET THORN SATIN SHART SERAL

Strategy after playing OLIVE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OLIVE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SMART
12% chance
Suggested:
RESET
11% chance
Suggested:
THORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SMART 5.75 bits
11.6% →
RESET 5.47 bits
11.5% →
THORN 5.16 bits
6.0% →
SATIN 4.93 bits
5.8% →
SHART 5.02 bits
3.8% →
SERAL 4.43 bits
3.7% →
SAULT 4.83 bits
3.6% →
STARY 4.68 bits
2.7% →
ROAST 4.12 bits
2.7% →
LOCAL 4.27 bits

Research on OLIVE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OLIVE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,169 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,194 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OLIVE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 12 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 95 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).