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

OPAHS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of opah

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

Use OPAHS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% 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 OPAHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OPAHS 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,493 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 OPAHS 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OPAHS 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,493 Rank among openers
Opening with OPAHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,493 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
19%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

OPAHS can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

441 answers
294 answers
267 answers
151 answers
128 answers
105 answers
91 answers
86 answers
77 answers
72 answers
57 answers
54 answers
40 answers
40 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1P3A1H4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing OPAHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OPAHS:

18% chance
Suggested:
LINER
12% chance
Suggested:
RATEL
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
LINER 5.93 bits
12.3% →
RATEL 5.48 bits
11.2% →
RONTE 5.19 bits
6.3% →
SIENT 5.44 bits
5.4% →
DRICE 4.81 bits
4.4% →
ACTOR 4.23 bits
3.8% →
CRINE 5.20 bits
3.6% →
PLIER 5.14 bits
3.2% →
RONTE 4.68 bits
3.0% →
SALET 4.83 bits

Research on OPAHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with OPAHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,844 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 OPAHS 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).