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OOMPH

Yes, OOMPH was the Wordle answer on January 6, 2026 (Wordle #1662).

As an opener, it rules out about 79.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʊmf//umf/

Noun

Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.

“Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.”

Noun

Sex appeal.

Verb

To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 6, 2026 (#1662).

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

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How OOMPH performs as a guess

OOMPH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 57.3% of games, misses completely in 42.7%, and leaves about 495 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,603 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in OOMPH.

First-turn measures

All four describe OOMPH 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.

3.47 Entropy (bits)
495 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OOMPH 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,603 Rank among openers
Opening with OOMPH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,603 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
714
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
331
6 guesses
23
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
22%
All gray
43%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
O O M P H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OOMPH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

OOMPH can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1014 answers
209 answers
178 answers
147 answers
145 answers
117 answers
80 answers
34 answers
30 answers
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29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
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24 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1M3P3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RAILE ACORN SLIER TARSE RANSE BLATE

Strategy after playing OOMPH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOMPH:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ACORN
7% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.7% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
8.8% →
ACORN 5.25 bits
7.5% →
SLIER 5.65 bits
6.2% →
TARSE 5.59 bits
6.1% →
RANSE 4.70 bits
4.9% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
3.4% →
BLATE 4.79 bits
1.4% →
SACRE 4.51 bits
1.3% →
SCALE 4.23 bits
1.3% →
CADET 4.22 bits

Research on OOMPH

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

Optimal play

Opening with OOMPH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,444 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,586 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it OOMF.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, OOMPH is a kind of attractiveness or activity.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
OOMPH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).