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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

OTTER

Yes, OTTER was the Wordle answer on February 23, 2025 (Wordle #1345).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɒt.ə//ˈɑtɚ/[(ʔ)ɑɾɚ]

Noun

An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.

Noun

A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 23, 2025 (#1345).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How OTTER performs as a guess

OTTER 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 83.7% of games, misses completely in 16.3%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,194 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___R O in the 1st position and R in the 5th position O__E_ O in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _T__R T in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN SLANE COLON CAIRN CEASE SAINT
Words starting with O Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OTTER 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
0.73 Volatility
#9,194 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OTTER ranks #9,194 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
778
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
22
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
O T H E R
O T T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OTTER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

385
274
194
158
138
109
98
96
87
76
72
71
55
36
34
33
33
29
24
24
23
22
22
13
13
12
12
12
12
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OTTER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
COLON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.3% →
SLAIN 5.92 bits
11.6% →
SLANE 5.43 bits
8.2% →
COLON 5.09 bits
6.7% →
CAIRN 4.83 bits
5.9% →
CEASE 4.62 bits
4.6% →
SAINT 5.31 bits
4.2% →
SHALT 5.00 bits
4.1% →
ACORN 4.45 bits
3.7% →
SADLY 3.48 bits
3.2% →
SAUNT 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1T1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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