5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

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 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 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.

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___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

Try next

TARSE SLEER TRONE TILDE STURE SERAL
Words starting with O Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
258 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 opener: v5 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
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,329 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OMIAI 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 (3.45 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

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

454
403
366
191
178
99
87
62
59
57
52
47
29
26
22
21
17
15
13
13
12
12
11
10
9
7
6
6
6
5

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.

19.3% →
TARSE 5.53 bits
17.1% →
SLEER 5.84 bits
15.5% →
TRONE 5.19 bits
8.1% →
TILDE 4.89 bits
7.5% →
STURE 4.82 bits
4.2% →
SERAL 4.54 bits
3.7% →
ACTOR 4.33 bits
2.6% →
TRAIN 4.61 bits
2.5% →
GLARE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
SUCRE 4.46 bits

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.