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

OMASA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of omasum

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 OMASA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OMASA 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,596 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 OMASA 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OMASA 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,596 Rank among openers
Opening with OMASA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,596 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
19
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:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
24%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

OMASA can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
306 answers
279 answers
179 answers
142 answers
87 answers
84 answers
77 answers
66 answers
62 answers
57 answers
57 answers
39 answers
38 answers
31 answers
28 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3A1S1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing OMASA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMASA:

24% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6%
TRINE 6.06 bits
12.9%
TRONE 5.14 bits
11.8%
TALER 5.47 bits
7.5%
STILE 5.15 bits
6.0%
DRICE 4.98 bits
3.7%
CONTE 4.27 bits
3.5%
TALON 4.51 bits
3.2%
TRIPE 4.78 bits
2.8%
LEANT 3.82 bits
2.6%
SALET 4.58 bits

Research on OMASA

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

Optimal play

Opening with OMASA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,769 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,353 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it OHMAHSUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OMASA is a kind of stomach.

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).