5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OMENS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of omen

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of omen

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 OMENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OMENS 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,648 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S O in the 1st position and S in the 5th position O__N_ O in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _M__S M in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TRAIL COLOR SAULT SPATE AINEE
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OMENS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,648 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OMENS ranks #6,648 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
16
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
19%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

371
309
208
167
112
89
87
80
76
74
71
66
58
48
44
43
35
29
29
24
21
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18
14
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12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMENS:

16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
9% chance
Suggested:
COLOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
RAILE 5.48 bits
13.1% →
TRAIL 6.01 bits
8.8% →
COLOR 5.01 bits
7.1% →
SAULT 5.36 bits
4.7% →
SPATE 4.80 bits
3.8% →
AINEE 4.67 bits
3.7% →
DROVE 4.26 bits
3.4% →
ERECT 4.59 bits
3.2% →
PANIC 4.71 bits
3.1% →
GIANT 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3E1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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