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

ORNEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative spelling of orné.

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 ORNEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ORNEE 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,955 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ORNEE 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ORNEE 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% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,955 Rank among openers
Opening with ORNEE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,955 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
884
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
44%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

ORNEE can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

393 answers
210 answers
143 answers
133 answers
132 answers
122 answers
92 answers
76 answers
75 answers
68 answers
58 answers
53 answers
45 answers
40 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1R1N1E1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ORNEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ORNEE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
9% chance
Suggested:
SALTY
6% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6%
SAULT 5.92 bits
8.8%
SALTY 5.10 bits
6.0%
SAULT 5.43 bits
5.6%
DEALT 5.49 bits
5.6%
SLATY 4.98 bits
5.1%
SAINT 5.32 bits
3.9%
TARRE 4.18 bits
3.2%
SAULT 3.84 bits
3.2%
COAST 4.31 bits
2.9%
REARM 4.22 bits

Research on ORNEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ORNEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,099 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 ORNEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AWRNEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.