5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OOJAH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Something whose name is unknown or unimportant; a thingy; a whatsit.

Alternative forms: hoojah, ooja, oojar

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 OOJAH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OOJAH 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 384 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,442 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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 _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE TRINE SIREN TALER STIRE
Words starting with O Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.43 Entropy (bits)
384 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OOJAH 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,442 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OOJAH ranks #14,442 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
588
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
429
6 guesses
41
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
3 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
25%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

43 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

719
531
183
155
122
105
81
68
64
38
36
33
27
25
22
22
18
15
10
8
8
7
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOJAH:

30% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
23% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
SLIER 6.05 bits
22.5% →
TARSE 5.37 bits
7.8% →
TRINE 5.25 bits
6.6% →
SIREN 4.64 bits
5.2% →
TALER 4.70 bits
4.5% →
STIRE 5.49 bits
3.4% →
BARON 4.52 bits
2.9% →
STARE 4.57 bits
2.7% →
CLINE 4.41 bits
1.6% →
SLATE 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1J8A1H4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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