5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

OPING

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

present participle and gerund of ope

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 OPING performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OPING 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,425 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___G O in the 1st position and G in the 5th position O__N_ O in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _P__G P in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CARTE SALET SLATE LAREE ALURE
Words starting with O Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.26 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OPING 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,425 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OPING ranks #5,425 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
869
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
20%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

631
321
168
129
129
111
86
80
69
52
48
46
33
32
27
27
24
23
20
19
18
17
15
12
11
10
10
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OPING:

27% chance
Suggested:
REAST
14% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
REAST 6.33 bits
13.6% →
CARTE 5.37 bits
7.1% →
SALET 5.18 bits
5.5% →
SLATE 5.13 bits
5.5% →
SLATE 5.71 bits
4.7% →
LAREE 5.07 bits
3.6% →
ALURE 5.15 bits
3.4% →
SAWER 4.48 bits
2.9% →
CANER 4.50 bits
2.2% →
LEAST 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1P3I1N1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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