5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

OPIUM

OPIUM is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈoʊ.pi.əm//ˈəʊ.pi.əm//ˈoʊp.jəm/

Noun

A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

Noun

Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 OPIUM performs as a guess

OPIUM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,845 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___M O in the 1st position and M in the 5th position O__U_ O in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _P__M P in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

REAST CARLE LATER SALET SNARE CANER
Words starting with O Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.17 Entropy (bits)
254 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OPIUM 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,845 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OPIUM ranks #8,845 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
18
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
3 vowels
Common:
IOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
20%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
I D I O M
O P I U M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OPIUM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

576
352
215
195
167
98
68
51
44
43
43
34
30
29
26
24
23
23
22
22
21
15
15
14
14
14
13
13
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OPIUM:

24% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
REAST 6.09 bits
14.9% →
CARLE 5.33 bits
9.1% →
LATER 5.24 bits
8.3% →
SALET 5.34 bits
7.1% →
SNARE 4.86 bits
4.2% →
REAST 5.46 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 4.93 bits
2.2% →
CANER 4.58 bits
1.9% →
POSER 4.36 bits
1.8% →
SHART 3.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1P3I1U1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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