5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OOZED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of ooze

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 OOZED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OOZED 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 353 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,163 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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___D O in the 1st position and D in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART STAIR ACORN SHALT GEARE
Words starting with O Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.59 Entropy (bits)
353 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OOZED 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,163 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OOZED ranks #14,163 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
584
4 guesses
1,311
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
30
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
28%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

685
488
205
197
122
87
78
72
46
41
28
28
27
24
21
20
20
17
17
15
13
12
11
11
9
6
5
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOZED:

29% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
21% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
SAINT 6.06 bits
20.7% →
SLART 5.82 bits
8.7% →
STAIR 4.62 bits
8.4% →
ACORN 5.19 bits
5.2% →
SHALT 4.42 bits
3.7% →
GEARE 4.59 bits
3.3% →
SNORE 4.08 bits
3.1% →
DAILY 4.65 bits
2.0% →
SLART 2.92 bits
1.7% →
ALURE 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1Z10E1D2
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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