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

OOAAS

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

No dictionary definition for OOAAS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use OOAAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How OOAAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OOAAS 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,891 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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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First-turn measures

All four describe OOAAS 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
280 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OOAAS 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,891 Rank among openers
Opening with OOAAS left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,891 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
640
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
371
6 guesses
38

Composition

3/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
33%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

OOAAS can come back 54 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

648 answers
268 answers
250 answers
159 answers
159 answers
157 answers
105 answers
79 answers
73 answers
66 answers
63 answers
35 answers
32 answers
27 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1A1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing OOAAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOAAS:

27% chance
Suggested:
LINER
11% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
LINER 5.88 bits
11.2% →
RATEL 5.21 bits
10.5% →
STILE 5.34 bits
6.7% →
TRICE 5.08 bits
6.7% →
CRUET 4.63 bits
6.6% →
TRINE 5.21 bits
4.4% →
THALE 4.12 bits
3.3% →
REACT 4.31 bits
3.1% →
BARON 4.53 bits
2.8% →
TRICE 4.21 bits

Research on OOAAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with OOAAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,908 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,102 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).