5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

OOZIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

In Myanmar, an elephant trainer or mahout.

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 OOZIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OOZIE 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,940 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___E O in the 1st position and E in the 5th position O__I_ O in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART ALTER SLANT ACORN CLARY DINER
Words starting with O Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OOZIE 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,940 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OOZIE ranks #13,940 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
603
4 guesses
1,302
5 guesses
373
6 guesses
32
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
4 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
37%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

463
410
238
214
178
132
97
94
94
59
51
37
33
32
32
26
25
17
17
12
10
7
7
7
4
4
4
4
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OOZIE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLART
17% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
SLART 5.88 bits
17.4% →
ALTER 5.41 bits
10.1% →
SLANT 5.11 bits
9.1% →
SLART 5.15 bits
7.5% →
ACORN 5.17 bits
5.6% →
CLARY 4.73 bits
4.1% →
SLANT 4.87 bits
4.0% →
DINER 4.77 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.17 bits
2.5% →
SLART 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1O1Z10I1E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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