OMEGA
Yes, OMEGA was the Wordle answer on July 29, 2025 (Wordle #1501).
As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊmɪɡə//ˈəʊmiːɡə//ˌoʊˈmeɪɡə/
- Noun
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The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
- Noun
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The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
“alpha and omega”
- Adjective
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Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.
“Omega props, dude.”
- Adverb
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Ultimately, most, supremely.
“Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 29, 2025 (#1501).
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See what the public sample says →How OMEGA performs as a guess
OMEGA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.5% of games, misses completely in 11.5%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,262 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe OMEGA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How OMEGA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches OMEGA in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
OMEGA can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for OMEGA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing OMEGA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to OMEGA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing OMEGA:
Research on OMEGA
Game-tree analysis and word research for OMEGA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with OMEGA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,434 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 OMEGA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 OHMEHGUH.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, OMEGA is a kind of finish or letter.
Synonyms z
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- OMEGA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.3 of 5).
In a sentence
Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
I know Omega Mart's exceptional customers song.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).