5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

ONSEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɒnˈsɛn//ˈɒnsɛn/

Noun

A (Japanese) hot spring.

“The hottest springs in Japan aren't in the north but at the Obama Onsen outside Nagasaki.”

Noun

A Japanese-style resort hotel at a natural hot spring, offering on-site bathing.

“We stayed at a traditional onsen with tatami, yukata, and kaiseki at Onyang outside Seoul.”

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 ONSEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ONSEN 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,825 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___N O in the 1st position and N in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__N N in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE COLOR SLART ALTER LAIRY
Words starting with O Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ONSEN 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,825 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ONSEN ranks #10,825 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
743
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
22
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

384
358
256
180
154
122
117
76
63
60
53
40
35
34
31
31
28
21
19
19
15
14
14
13
13
13
13
13
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ONSEN:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
REATE
11% chance
Suggested:
COLOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
TRAIL 5.92 bits
15.2% →
REATE 5.56 bits
10.9% →
COLOR 5.00 bits
7.6% →
SLART 5.33 bits
6.5% →
ALTER 4.31 bits
5.2% →
SLART 4.99 bits
5.0% →
LAIRY 4.78 bits
3.2% →
ROOST 4.38 bits
2.7% →
DROLE 4.18 bits
2.5% →
DOING 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1N1S1E1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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