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

OMDAH

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

No dictionary definition for OMDAH is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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

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 OMDAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OMDAH 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 78.3% of games, misses completely in 21.7%, and leaves about 236 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,313 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe OMDAH 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
236 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OMDAH 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,313 Rank among openers
Opening with OMDAH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,313 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
18%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

OMDAH can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

516 answers
388 answers
281 answers
107 answers
91 answers
86 answers
76 answers
67 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
53 answers
52 answers
51 answers
46 answers
33 answers
29 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
15 answers
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14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3D2A1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing OMDAH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMDAH:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SNORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.7%
SLIER 6.10 bits
16.3%
SLATE 5.57 bits
11.8%
SNORE 5.26 bits
4.5%
DINER 5.17 bits
3.8%
TALER 4.67 bits
3.6%
STIRE 5.44 bits
3.2%
TALON 4.63 bits
2.8%
SLICE 4.87 bits
2.6%
DONOR 4.41 bits
2.4%
RAILE 4.42 bits

Research on OMDAH

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

Optimal play

Opening with OMDAH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,604 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 OMDAH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 AHMDAH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.