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

OLLAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of olla

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 OLLAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OLLAS 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,944 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

O___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__A_ O in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe OLLAS 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.

4.41 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OLLAS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,944 Rank among openers
Opening with OLLAS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,944 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
817
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
22%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

OLLAS can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

448 answers
320 answers
275 answers
193 answers
131 answers
108 answers
91 answers
79 answers
74 answers
57 answers
46 answers
44 answers
40 answers
32 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1L1L1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TRINE TRICE RONTE STIRE REAST LINER

Strategy after playing OLLAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OLLAS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRICE
12% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
TRINE 6.13 bits
13.5% →
TRICE 5.56 bits
11.6% →
RONTE 5.37 bits
8.1% →
STIRE 5.51 bits
5.5% →
REAST 4.74 bits
4.5% →
RONTE 4.62 bits
3.8% →
LINER 4.82 bits
3.3% →
BARON 4.61 bits
3.1% →
MARLE 4.31 bits
2.4% →
PRICE 4.48 bits

Research on OLLAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with OLLAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,305 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with OLLAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 first syllable Say it AHLUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OLLAS is a kind of paper.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OLLAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).