5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ONKUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Inferior; unpleasant; unacceptably bad.

Adjective

Good; acceptable; okay.

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 ONKUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ONKUS 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,038 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__U_ O in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE TALER STALE RAILE PARLE ARIEL
Words starting with O Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ONKUS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,038 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ONKUS ranks #10,038 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
789
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
26
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:
NOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
10%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

652
280
246
179
148
103
89
65
53
45
39
38
35
25
23
22
22
21
18
17
16
15
14
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11
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ONKUS:

28% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
TIARE 6.21 bits
11.9% →
TALER 5.36 bits
10.4% →
STALE 5.78 bits
7.6% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
6.3% →
PARLE 5.01 bits
4.4% →
ARIEL 4.45 bits
3.8% →
ROOST 4.65 bits
2.8% →
SAUTE 4.46 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 5.01 bits
1.9% →
STIPE 4.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1N1K5U1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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