5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OMLAH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A staff of native clerks or officials in colonial Bengal.

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 OMLAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OMLAH 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,080 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___H O in the 1st position and H in the 5th position O__A_ O in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _M__H M in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TRINE TARSE TRONE SLIER STANE STIRE
Words starting with O Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OMLAH 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,080 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OMLAH ranks #6,080 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
886
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ALO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
20%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
308
260
161
125
78
72
66
58
54
53
48
47
45
44
41
34
27
26
24
22
17
15
15
15
14
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OMLAH:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
TRINE 6.19 bits
13.1% →
TARSE 5.56 bits
11.0% →
TRONE 5.33 bits
6.8% →
SLIER 5.04 bits
5.3% →
STANE 4.68 bits
3.3% →
STIRE 5.52 bits
3.1% →
COOER 4.11 bits
2.8% →
BARON 4.63 bits
2.5% →
MISER 4.81 bits
2.3% →
SETER 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1M3L1A1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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