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OOMPH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.2% 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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 57.4% of games, misses completely in 42.6%, and leaves about 490 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,603 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE ACORN SLIER TARSE RANSE BLATE
Words starting with O Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.48 Entropy (bits)
490 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,603 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OOMPH 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 (3.45 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

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1005
208
177
146
145
117
80
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOMPH:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ACORN
8% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.6% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
8.8% →
ACORN 5.26 bits
7.5% →
SLIER 5.65 bits
6.2% →
TARSE 5.61 bits
6.1% →
RANSE 4.70 bits
5.0% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
3.4% →
BLATE 4.79 bits
1.4% →
STARE 4.48 bits
1.3% →
SCALE 4.23 bits
1.2% →
CADET 4.25 bits

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.