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

OMIAI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Japanese custom in which unattached individuals are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage.

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 OMIAI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OMIAI 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 259 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,329 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___I O in the 1st position and I in the 5th position O__A_ O in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _M__I M in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OMIAI.

First-turn measures

All four describe OMIAI 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.

3.89 Entropy (bits)
259 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OMIAI 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,329 Rank among openers
Opening with OMIAI left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,329 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
659
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
356
6 guesses
32
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
4 vowels
Common:
AIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
21%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

OMIAI can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

456 answers
406 answers
368 answers
194 answers
180 answers
99 answers
89 answers
63 answers
59 answers
57 answers
52 answers
47 answers
29 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3I1A1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TARSE SLEER TRONE SIENT STURE SERAL

Strategy after playing OMIAI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMIAI:

19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLEER
16% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
TARSE 5.54 bits
17.1% →
SLEER 5.84 bits
15.5% →
TRONE 5.18 bits
8.2% →
SIENT 4.88 bits
7.6% →
STURE 4.81 bits
4.2% →
SERAL 4.54 bits
3.7% →
ACTOR 4.31 bits
2.7% →
SLART 4.50 bits
2.5% →
GLARE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
SUCRE 4.46 bits

Research on OMIAI

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

Optimal play

Opening with OMIAI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,716 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,372 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 OHMYYAH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OMIAI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).