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

OORIE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of ourie.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use OORIE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% 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 OORIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OORIE 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe OORIE 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OORIE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,531 Rank among openers
Opening with OORIE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
877
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
4 vowels
Common:
EIOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

OORIE can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

319 answers
225 answers
179 answers
167 answers
154 answers
111 answers
95 answers
92 answers
77 answers
73 answers
70 answers
58 answers
48 answers
47 answers
45 answers
44 answers
37 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1R1I1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing OORIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OORIE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SLANT 5.76 bits
9.4% →
SLANT 5.60 bits
7.5% →
SLANT 5.18 bits
7.0% →
SLEET 4.54 bits
6.5% →
SAULT 5.32 bits
4.7% →
SLANT 4.88 bits
4.0% →
SALTY 4.51 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
3.2% →
SAUNT 4.16 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 4.83 bits

Research on OORIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with OORIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,299 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with OORIE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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).