5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

OMBRE

OMBRE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɒm.bə//ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

Noun

A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

Noun

Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).

Alternative forms: omber

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 OMBRE performs as a guess

OMBRE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,858 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__R_ O in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLANT STAIR ARSON SAUCY SHALT
Words starting with O Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
165 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OMBRE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,858 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OMBRE ranks #4,858 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
884
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
O M B R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OMBRE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

418
221
214
178
177
142
100
79
64
48
45
42
34
33
30
28
27
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25
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMBRE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.7% →
SAINT 6.11 bits
9.4% →
SLANT 5.53 bits
9.1% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
7.5% →
STAIR 4.25 bits
7.5% →
SLANT 5.27 bits
6.0% →
SAINT 5.35 bits
4.2% →
ARSON 4.01 bits
3.4% →
SAUCY 4.66 bits
2.7% →
SAINT 3.97 bits
2.0% →
SHALT 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3B3R1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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